The event was peaceful.
Roughly 400 people marched two blocks down and up First Avenue South next to Railroad Park in support of Palestine. Roughly 400 people gathered near Birmingham’s Railroad Park on Sunday to support Palestine and protest Israel’s recent bombings in Gaza.
Amer Zahr, a Michigan-based Palestinian American writer and comedian, spoke at a protest in Birmingham, telling attendees to tell their neighbors they loved them. Her family members, who she said were Christian, would tell her memories of being close with their Jewish neighbors, she said.
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