Guernica to pay tribute to the victims of Israel's bloody campaign in Gaza.

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By Graham Keeley
Published On 5 Dec 2023

Madrid, Spain – On Friday, a survivor of the 1937 Guernica massacre and a Palestinian protester will sound an alarm in the Spanish marketplace bombed by a Nazi legion, to pay tribute to the victims of Israel’s bloody campaign in Gaza.

Hundreds of people in the Spanish town, which became an international symbol of the horrors of war thanks to Pablo Picasso’s masterpiece, will form a human mosaic, dressed in the red, black, white and green of the Palestinian flag.

Guernica was bombed by the Nazi Condor Legion during the Spanish Civil War, killing scores of defenceless civilians as Germany supported General Francisco Franco’s Nationalist forces.

Piccasso’s large oil painting, named after the town, portrays extreme suffering, including an image of a crying mother holding her lifeless child.

That scene within the painting will be represented at Friday’s protest, said Igor Otxoa, spokesperson for the Guernica Palestine organisation.

“We have always felt sympathy for the Palestinians because we suffered under the dictatorship and have undergone a long conflict with the Spanish state and independence groups here,” Otxoa told Al Jazeera.



https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/12/5/always-felt-sympathy-for-palestinians-tracing-spains-solidarity

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Ethical People.

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4. Over 3,000 people form human mosaic in Spain to support Palestine

More than 3,000 people supported Palestine by forming a human mosaic in Guernica, one of the symbolic places of the Spanish Civil War, which was bombed in 1937, Anadolu Agency reports.

At the event organised in the town of Guernica in northern Spain, people created a mosaic with a human chain, depicting the pain of the victims of Israeli attacks on Gaza and the Palestinian flag.

Organised by the Guernica-Palestine Citizens’ Initiative, including trade unions, political parties and social organisations, the event was held in the Pasialeku Market Place in Guernica, which has gone down in history as the site of the first major bombing against the civilians population The airstrike caused widespread destruction and many civilian deaths in Guernica.

The world and history must not accept a new Guernica was the message of the event. In the manifesto, the Guernica-Palestine Citizens’ Initiative said: Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people and asked the international community to share the suffering of the Palestinian people and stop the massacre.

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20231208-over-3000-people-form-human-mosaic-in-spain-to-support-palestine/