Take to the streets against the warmongers Milei, Trump, and the criminal Netanyahu

Since October 7, 2023, in the Gaza Strip alone, more than 60,000 Palestinians have been killed and two million people displaced from their homes. However, these are outdated official figures. Other reports, such as those from The Lancet, indicate that the numbers may be much higher—estimating around 40% more deaths than official statistics. As of today, we know that more than 2,700 Palestinian families have been completely wiped out from civil records.

The total blockade imposed by Israel on the coastal territory has plunged the region into famine. Israeli soldiers fire live ammunition at residents who approach to seek humanitarian aid from the infamous Israeli-American foundation. Bombs fall on schools and hospitals.

These acts, which can only be described as genocide, have shaken the world. On Friday, October 3, there was an extraordinary general strike in solidarity with the Palestinian people in Italy, joined by two million people. On Saturday, October 4, hundreds of thousands once again filled the streets across the Spanish state. The massive protests in the United States, London, and throughout the Arab world had already impressed the world.

The Argentine people and the peoples of the Global South know that Palestine is resisting the attacks of an extermination apparatus managed by the Zionist state. That is why the Global Sumud Flotilla and many other humanitarian aid flotillas continue to try to break the Zionist blockade of Palestine—such as those that departed just days ago from Italy and Turkey, composed of medical personnel, journalists, and other members of civil society.
From this square, we send our warmest greetings to the more than 450 crew members of the brave Global Sumud Flotilla who were intercepted by Israel at the beginning of October and who, thanks to the pressure of people’s struggles in the streets, have been released after enduring endless days in Ktzi’ot prison in the Negev desert. We celebrate the release of our comrades Celeste Fierro and Ezequiel Peressini, who will arrive in Argentina tomorrow, Wednesday, and of Carlos Bertola, who will arrive this Thursday.

We know that mistreatment, deprivation of medication, food, and water, and hearings without the presence of lawyers were just some of the abuses reported from there. If the Zionist regime treated our comrades this way, imagine what the Palestinian people suffer every day under occupation.

The Zionist prisons where the Flotilla crew was held are a living hell for the Palestinian people. After October 7, 2023, Addameer (an organization that supports Palestinian prisoners and their families) reported 10,221 people imprisoned “following the wide-scale arrest campaigns carried out by the occupation authorities against various segments of the Palestinian population,” including children, pregnant women, and the elderly. Under the euphemism of “administrative detention,” in yet another display of its supremacist and apartheid regime, the Zionist entity keeps people under arrest without any charges or fair trial, nor access to legitimate legal defense.

But the State of Israel—reviled across the world for these atrocities—still enjoys the support of the United States and the European Union, which, despite their condemnatory rhetoric, continue to provide it with weapons and maintain all kinds of trade agreements, once again exposing the double standards of Western powers and their leaders.

We denounce that the “Trump Plan,” presented in recent days at the White House, is not a peace plan but a new ultimatum against the Palestinian people. The U.S. president threatens to unleash hell if his ambitions are not fulfilled for a protectorate led by himself and Tony Blair—the same Tony Blair who, along with George Bush, fabricated the lie of weapons of mass destruction to justify the 2003 invasion of Iraq. We repudiate this colonialist ultimatum and defend the Palestinian people’s right to resist and to self-determination.

The recent meeting between Milei and Netanyahu in New York confirmed the Argentine government’s alignment with Zionism. The joint voting of Argentina, Israel, and the United States in international bodies, the security memorandum signed in Tel Aviv, and the promises to move the Argentine embassy to Jerusalem are other examples of this alliance with the genocidal state.

For this reason, there is also an ongoing political and judicial persecution of those who denounce the genocide, as shown in the cases of Vanina Biasi, Alejandro Bodart, teacher Federico Puy, and retired worker Daniel Vera from Chaco.

We, who are not complicit in the Palestinian genocide—
We, who say NO to the persecution of those who confront and expose the crimes against humanity of Israel’s genocidal regime—
demand the immediate severance of Argentina’s relations with that regime.

We know this did not begin on October 7. That is why, two years into the deepening genocidal offensive, we say:

Let´s never stop talking about Palestine! All eyes on Gaza!
No to genocide and the persecution of those who expose and resist it!
Freedom for all Palestinian political prisoners!
No to the colonialist “Trump Plan”!
No to the annexation of the West Bank!
Zionist troops out of Palestine, Syria, and Lebanon!
Stop the attacks on Iran, Yemen, and Qatar!
Cut ties with Israel! Mekorot out of Argentina! Sanctions on Israel now!
Long live the resistance of the Palestinian people! Free Palestine — from the river to the sea!