A sea of flags, checkered scarves and signs reading “We love Gaza” filled Dearborn’s Ford Community & Performing Arts Center as more than 1,200 people gathered Tuesday night to rally for an end to the Palestinian occupation as the war unfolds in the Middle East.
“We are not here to celebrate anything,” Mohammed Abdul Salam, who works with the Palestine Aid Society, told the crowd. “We mourn this destruction. 900 civilians, including 260 children and 230 women, along with 200,000 displaced living in United Nations Schools. The root cause of all wars and problems in Palestine is the occupation. Therefore, the only solution is to end the occupation.”
The crowd responded chanting, “Free, free Palestine.”