Survivors of Hamas ' October 7 incursion into southern Israel were in attendance as participants marched the two-mile (three kilometre) walk from Auschwitz to Birkenau
Pro-Palestinian demonstrators massed near the grounds of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp today, rolling out flags and hoisting balloons as groups gathered for the 'March of the Living' in remembrance of the victims of the Holocaust.
Just last week, distressing footage invoked fury as a man filmed himself walking through the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Auschwitz and saying: 'You belong here. This is your place of origin. You left these camps and ghettos. Long live Palestine.' Acknowledging the protests, the International March of the Living said in a statement: 'We marched today to give a voice to the six million victims of the Nazis industrial genocide of the Jewish people.
The event, now in its 36th year, usually draws thousands of participants, including Holocaust survivors and Jewish students, leaders and politicians. Last week, a man was detained in Poland 'in connection to' the hurling of Molotov cocktails at the only Synagogue to have survived the Holocaust, an attack that drew ire from Polish officials and Jewish leaders.'If it had gone 15 centimetres to the left it would have reached the window and possibly inside the synagogue. There's a library there,' Poland's chief rabbi Michael Schudrich told reporters at the time.
Hamas has said its attack was aimed against Israeli occupation and its blockade of Gaza, and pro-Palestinian activists deny any anti-Semitic motives in their opposition to Israel's military offensive. Some 34,000 people have been killed in Gaza since Israel began its offensive by air and land, sparking international outcry and prompting Israel's allies to pressure the government into finding ceasefire terms.
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