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‘We are not alone’: people in Gaza respond to ‘Best March’ on Harbor Bridge
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‘We are not alone’: people in Gaza respond to ‘Best March’ on Harbor Bridge

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While tens of thousands of Australians crossed the port bridge of Sydney on Sunday as part of a pro-Palestinian protest, the locals looked in the region torn by war.
Some wrote messages from praise on social media, while others shared photos of children who kept posters who made their gratitude for the support.
Mohammed Hamad, who lives in Gaza, shared a photo of his daughter with a thank you.

“We know what is happening outside and we follow everything. The best Mars I have seen is the Brugmars,” he told SBS News.

Mohammed Hamad and his daughter Hira saw the Sydney Harbor Bridge protesting from Gaza. Credit: X/ Mohammed Hamad

The NSW police said that the first estimates set the crowd at 90,000, while rally organizers, the Palestine Action Group, estimated that the figure was closer to 300,000.

“We’re not alone”

Tamer Nahed, a web developer from North Gaza, wrote on social media that witnessed the “mass protest” gave his parents a sense of hope.
“I showed them the massive protests that took place in Sydney. I told them, there are still people who care about us. We are not alone,” he wrote on X.

“We looked together while people stood in the rain, in this cold weather, singing for us – for justice, for truth. And in my parents’ eyes I saw something that had long missed … I saw Hope Return, even when I was a little.”

Nahed expressed his gratitude to the demonstrators and wrote that he often forgotten through the world when he looks at the news.

“Thank you to everyone who marched today, to everyone who raised his voice for us. You didn’t do it in vain. You have given us something that words cannot fully catch,” he wrote.

More protests ahead, the organizers say

One of the organizers told reporters that more protests were planned, but that a repeat transition from the Sydney Harbor Bridge will not take place quickly, according to the Australian Associated Press.

Joshua Read, organizer of Palestine Action Group, said Sunday: “We want to build on this huge momentum that we have now.”

“His attitude is quite clear and he has already adopted a series of anti-protest legislation,” said read.
“We must continue to fight for our rights to demonstrate.”
Minns said with ABC Radio on Tuesday morning and said that he accepted the reason for the protest, but that “common sense must play a role”.
“I don’t doubt the motives of many of the demonstrators. I accept that this is a protest that many people want,” he said.

“My argument here is that I cannot close the central artery for a city that is as large as Sydney-even in the short term, but even if we had a huge heads to do it.”

‘An extraordinary march’

Speaking of the protest, Minister of Foreign Affairs Penny Wong acknowledged the anger and need that some Australians felt.
“That was an extraordinary march and I think it will show what we all feel,” she told the ABCs 7.30 program.
“I know that Australians feel sad, angry, upset, really shocked by what they see in Gaza. I certainly share that suffering. Those ministers in the government do.”
The Palestine Action Group said it is planning a national day of action that is planned for 24 August, together with more protests.

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