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The leader of the Sadrist movement, Muqtada al-Sadr, decided, last Wednesday evening, to cancel the demonstrations that he had previously called on his supporters to organize in condemnation of the Gaza war .
Al-Sadr said in a statement that “after the Zionist recklessness and terrorism in Palestine and Lebanon, with the open cover of the great evil America, and their failure to respond to international resolutions and humanitarian appeals, and their disregard for the voice of the peoples rising up against the systematic Zionist-American terrorism that wants to drag the entire region into a war of extermination, I find it logical to cancel the expected million-man demonstrations .”
He added, “After all these Israeli attacks against the people, the demonstrations are no longer useful. They are not up to the level of the momentous event .”
The leader of the Sadrist movement, Muqtada al-Sadr, called for a million-man demonstration in Tahrir Square in central Baghdad to support the Palestinian cause .
Al-Sadr said in a statement read by the preacher of the Kufa Mosque, “I call on my Iraqi brothers of all backgrounds, except the corrupt, to go out in a million-man demonstration that reflects a true image of the extent of the Iraqi people’s sympathy with the Palestinian cause and with their afflicted brothers in Gaza, on the first Friday after the 17th of Rabi’ al-Awwal of this year, the birth of the greatest light and the most honorable Messenger Muhammad, may God bless him and his family .”
Al-Sadr stressed that “the demonstration should be peaceful in Tahrir Square in Baghdad, while wearing shrouds, so that your voice and image reach the entire world. Do not fall short in that, I hope for sure, as this is what pleases his Messenger, his family, and our great authorities, the living and the dead .”
Earlier on Wednesday , the Lebanese Ministry of Health announced the killing of 9 people and the injury of more than 300 others in a new wave of bombings that targeted wireless devices in various Lebanese regions .
The Public Health Emergency Operations Center of the Ministry of Public Health in Lebanon issued an update on the outcome of the new wave of bombings that targeted wireless devices, stating that “nine people were killed and more than three hundred people were injured,” while “the process of transporting the injured via ambulances is nearing completion .”
On Tuesday, pager communication devices exploded in several areas considered strongholds of the Lebanese Hezbollah, including the southern suburbs of Beirut, areas in southern Lebanon, and the eastern Bekaa, killing 12 people, including two children, and injuring about 2,800 others .
Hezbollah held Israel responsible for the operation, stressing that “this path is continuous and separate from the difficult reckoning that the criminal enemy must face for the massacre it committed against our people, our families, and our mujahideen in Lebanon. This is another reckoning that will come, God willing.”
