Hundreds gather in Sydney’s CBD rallying against Israeli attacks

Rallies are taking place around the country protesting the ongoing Gaza conflict ahead of the one-year anniversary of the start of the hostilities.

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00:00Protests marking the one year anniversary since the start of the deadly Gaza conflict

00:07are kicking off all around the country.

00:09This protest here in Sydney's Town Hall is peaceful but it is extremely passionate.

00:14We've seen demonstrations happen almost weekly here but this has been one of the largest

00:18turnouts with estimated over a thousand, perhaps two thousand people here in attendance.

00:24Attendees have described feeling worried and concerned for family members in both Palestine

00:29and Lebanon but also for civilian deaths.

00:32I think that politics aside, there's been too many people who've lost their lives and

00:37that should be the focus on everyone.

00:40It's children that are dying every day, innocent people that are dying every day, so we want

00:44the world to know what's really going on and who the real enemies are.

00:47We're here today for humanitarian reasons, nothing more.

00:52We want this to stop.

00:54We want children to stop dying.

00:56We want mothers to stop dying.

00:58We want people to go to school.

00:59We want them to finish school.

01:00We want people to live in peace and that's the only thing we want.

01:04Israel should stop bombing, stop all the bombing, stop all the shootings, they should let the

01:08countries go.

01:09Casualties have so far reached almost 40,000 in the region but the protest is promising

01:15to keep returning until a peaceful resolution is reached.