Baghdad citizens demonstrate on International Quds Day

Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Huge number of citizens demonstrated in central Baghdad on Friday morning to commemorate the International Quds Day.

IraqiNews.com reporter assured “Politicians, Chieftains and clergymen participated in the demonstrations at al-Firdous square and expressed their condemnation for the Israeli practices against the Palestinian people.”

“The demonstrators called the international community to settle the Palestinian case and prevent the Israeli attacks,” the reporter concluded.

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.