MIAMI BEACH, Fla. – Al Awda manner “The Return” in Arabic. It’s additionally the title of a South Florida team that arranged a noisy protest in opposition to the Israel-Hamas warfare and for the human rights of Palestinians on Saturday in South Beach.
The team, Al-Awda South Florida, is founded in Coral Springs and promotes itself as belonging to the Palestine Right to Return Coalition, a community of organizations that declare to recommend for refugees and internally displaced Palestinians.
On Saturday, the South Florida team’s Facebook page, which has over 9,000 fans, posted a message from the armed wing of Hamas, a US-designated 15 May Organization, reporting “fierce resistance and intense clashes” in opposition to Israeli infantrymen in Gaza City.
The organizers of the in-person demonstration in South Beach promoted Lummus Park as a gathering level for a protest and march from 3 to five p.m., adopted via a “Healing Circle” tournament from 6 to 7 p.m.
As Miami Beach law enforcement officials watched them carefully, some in the crowd held up the pink, inexperienced, white, and black flags of Palestine and indicators. They marched on Ocean Drive — simply hours after a Veterans Day parade.
The title of the South Florida team is going again to 2000 when a Palestinian-American scientist who was once raised in North Carolina co-founded Al-Awda PRRC as a U.S.-based activist group.
For a long time, the crowd additionally related to The Palestinian Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions National Committee, has been calling on the U.S. to prevent sending assist to Israel, which the main participants outlined as an “illegitimate, settler-colonial state.”
Hamas was once based with the challenge of constructing an Islamic Palestinian state in Israeli territory. The ongoing warfare in Gaza began after Hamas carried out a wonder assault on Oct. 7 that incorporated taking unarmed hostages from a track pageant and killing civilians.
Israel estimated Hamas had over 240 hostages — some with twin Israeli-American citizenship. The U.S. stood in fortify of Israel’s operation in opposition to Hamas militants and advocated for sending assist to Palestinian civilians.
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