Photo: Julius Kalinskas/ELTA

Lithuanian media reported 100 or more people gathered on Thursday, October 19, at Cathedral Square and marched to Vincas Kudirka Square in front of Government House in Vilnius to support Palestinians in Gaza. Several people protested their gathering on Cathedral Square waving Israeli and rainbow flags. The Lithuanian Telegraphic Agency ELTA reported:

Thursday evening a protest was held at Vincas Kudirka Square in Vilnius with about 100 protestors paying their respects to the residents of the Gaza Strip who have died in the military conflict with Israel. The Palestinian supporters gathered there after marching in silence from Cathedral Square.

Palestinian supporters held signs reading “No to apartheid, occupation and war crimes,” “End the occupation,” “Your silence supports Palestinian genocide,” “Stop genocide” [and similar inscriptions].

Protest organizer and www.palestina.lt website co-founder Andrius Mažeika said the goal of the protest was to stop the violence Israel is carrying out in the Gaza Strip.

“Israel is carrying out collective punishment outlawed by the Geneva Convention, turning the water off to residents, bombing civilians, targeting civilians. You need to remember that right up to this moment Israel has been occupying Gaza, and under the Geneva Convention the occupying power is responsible for the occupied population, for their basic needs,” Mažeika said. …

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