Babel citizens commemorate International Quds Day

Babel (IraqiNews.com) Huge public parades were launched in Babel on Friday to commemorate the International Quds Day.

The spokesman of the organizing Committee, Fadam al-Janabi, stated to IraqiNews.com “The aim behind these parades is to renew our calls for the rights of the Palestinians and to restore their confiscated territories.”

Quds Day, officially in Iran known as International Quds Day is an annual event that began in Iran in 1979, that is commemorated on the last Friday of Ramadan, expressing solidarity with the Palestinian people and opposing Zionism as well as Israel’s control of Jerusalem; Quds is that city’s Arabic name.

Quds Day rallies were first suggested by the leader of the Islamic Revolution in Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini in 1979.