Najaf citizens call international community to save Palestinian people

Najaf (IraqiNews.com) A number of citizens demonstrated in Najaf province on Friday morning to commemorate the International Quds Day.

IraqiNews.com reported mentioned “The demonstrations were launched from al-Ishreen Square towards the old city where a huge number of citizens, local officials, chieftains and clergymen participated in the demonstrations.”

“The demonstrators denounced the criminal actions of the Israeli side against the citizens in Palestine,” he added.

“The demonstrators called the international community to save the Palestinian people from these attacks,” he 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.