Approximately 200 people participated this Saturday in Valparaíso, about 120 kilometers northwest of the capital, in a march for Palestine to symbolically accompany the ‘Global March to Gaza.’

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The Global March to Gaza, on June 15 will bring together activists from more than 30 countries in Egypt to walk towards the border crossing with the Gaza Strip and demand a “total, permanent, and immediate” ceasefire.

“We want to accompany what will be the march to Gaza on June 15 and send a clear signal of how civil society is trying to break the humanitarian siege that the genocidal State of Israel has imposed on the Palestinian people,” said the spokesperson for the Coordinating Body for Palestine, Eduardo Asufra.

The ‘Global March to Gaza’, which will join other initiatives such as the ‘Freedom Flotilla’, which departed from Sicily (Italy) on Sunday and on which Swedish activist Greta Thunberg is traveling, also wants to demand the entry of humanitarian aid and the end of the illegal occupation of the Palestinian territories.

The participants walked through the city center to the seafront and, in a collective action, held hands to “send a message to those who will march to Gaza and to the Palestinian men and women,” Asufra explained.

For Amnesty International activist Carol Gayete, “this activity is more than important because of the macrogenocide that is occurring in Gaza, which we know is not just from two years ago, and our hearts as humans are already bursting.”

With nearly 500,000 people, Chile is a large refuge for the Palestinian community outside the Arab world, a migration that began in the late nineteenth century, when hundreds of Palestinians first escaped Ottoman domination, and which increased in the twentieth century with the Israeli occupation.

A week ago, the progressive president, Gabriel Boric, a recognized defender of the Palestinian cause, announced in his public address to Congress that he will ask the Legislature to approve an emergency law to ban the import of products from Israeli settlements.

The president, who has harshly criticized the Israeli offensive and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, also “supported” the Spanish Government’s proposal to decree an arms embargo on the Government of Israel.

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