{"id":36644,"date":"2021-05-13T10:39:31","date_gmt":"2021-05-13T09:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shefnews.co.uk\/?p=36644"},"modified":"2021-05-13T10:39:31","modified_gmt":"2021-05-13T09:39:31","slug":"hundreds-gather-for-palestine-protest-in-sheffield-city-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/05\/13\/hundreds-gather-for-palestine-protest-in-sheffield-city-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds gather for Palestine Protest in Sheffield City Centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the stormy weather on Tuesday, hundreds of protesters marched outside Sheffield City Hall after the recent escalation of violence in Jerusalem.<\/p>\n<p>The protest started at 6pm and lasted for an hour. It featured emotive speeches and chanting from the crowds.<\/p>\n<p>The Sheffield Palestine Solidarity Campaign called for people to join them at the protest through a Facebook post.<\/p>\n<p>They said: \u201cForced eviction, transfer of populations under occupation, arrest of protestors defending their homes: this is not a civilian dispute; this is war by Israel on Palestinian people.<\/p>\n<p>Please join us in Sheffield tonight to protest against the ethnic cleansing of Palestine and illegal evictions of Palestinians in East Jerusalem.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another protest will commence this Saturday, outside the City Hall at noon.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WZxYVVWN7Pg\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the protests, see Vivian Iroanya&#8217;s report <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shefnews.co.uk\/2021\/05\/13\/in-pictures-palestine-solidarity-protest-takes-place-in-sheffield\/\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the recent escalation of violence in Jerusalem, protests began outside Sheffield&#8217;s City Hall to fight against the ethic cleansing in Palestine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36708,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[415,82],"tags":[226,38],"class_list":["post-36644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-top-story","tag-protests","tag-sheffield"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - 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