Hundreds of people gathered on Thursday, April 9, in Madrid, Spain, in front of the embassy of the Zionist regime, in response to the call issued by Masar Badil, the Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement, Samidoun, Alkarama and Tariq el-Tahrir.
The mobilization, which was also covered by local and international media, took place in a militant atmosphere of solidarity with peoples in struggle, especially with the Lebanese people in light of the intensification of bombings and massacres carried out by the Zionist enemy, particularly the attacks throughout Lebanon and its capital, Beirut, on Wednesday, April 8.
See the following video of TRT’s coverage of the protest:
“The response of the axis of resistance has shaken the imperialist and Zionist hydra.”
During the gathering, slogans were chanted in support of the resistance in Palestine, Lebanon, Yemen and Iran, as well as slogans against Zionist–imperialist aggression and the impunity enjoyed by the occupying regime.
Participants also demanded that the government of the Spanish State immediately sever all forms of relations with the Zionist entity, denouncing the political, diplomatic and economic complicity that enables the continuation of its crimes.
“We demand the total rupture of relations with the genocidal state and an end to all complicity.”
During the event, the joint statement below was read aloud, denouncing the criminal nature of the aggression against Lebanon and calling for the intensification of organized popular mobilization at the international level as a necessary response to the escalation of violence.
Israel has carried out some of the worst massacres in years in Lebanon, with a preliminary toll exceeding a thousand people killed and injured.
“More than 100 targets bombed in minutes: this is not war, it is a massacre against the civilian population.”
The attacks have targeted ambulances, schools sheltering displaced people, mosques and residential buildings, demonstrating the indiscriminate nature of the aggression.
“Zionism seeks only to exterminate everything that stands in its path toward colonialism and expansionism.”
The gathering reaffirmed the importance of action in the streets and popular organization as fundamental tools to confront the imperialist–Zionist project and sustain the struggle of peoples for their liberation.
STATEMENT (READ AT THE MOBILIZATION)
The decisive response of the axis of resistance to Zionist and U.S. barbarism has weakened their infrastructure, but most importantly, it has shaken the imperialist and Zionist hydra. For this reason, Trump, driven mad, publicly declared his intention to destroy all of Iranian civilization.
Immediately afterward, he pretends to sign a ceasefire, which is violated from the very first hours by the Zionist entity, launching its largest wave of bombings in Lebanon, attacking more than 100 targets in 10 minutes, with a preliminary toll of more than 250 martyrs and more than 837 wounded, and continuing sustained bombardment of this territory up to the present.
These acts, together with the execution law in Zionist prisons that seeks to hang more than 9,000 Palestinians, once again show us the cruel and monstrous face of Zionism, which seeks only to exterminate everything that stands in its path toward colonialism and territorial expansion. We saw this in the annexation of part of Syria after paramilitary groups took power, and we see its attempt in southern Lebanon.
The criminalization of resistance is part of the attempt to crush the struggle of peoples.
But Hezbollah has responded in a brave, consistent and supportive manner from the very beginning and has stood in struggle alongside all Palestinian resistance factions without hesitation.
We send all our support to the resistance in Palestine, Lebanon, Yemen, Iraq and Iran.
We call on the Spanish State to:
- Expel the Zionist embassy and the U.S. embassy from this territory.
- Completely sever all agreements with the genocidal state.
- Expel Israel from European Horizon projects.
- Shut down all war factories belonging to Elbit Systems and Rafael Defense Systems, such as PAP Tecnos, among others.
- Investigate and prosecute the links between neo-Nazi groups such as the company Desokupa and Zionist war criminals.
- Completely close airspace and ports to weapons shipments used to perpetuate extermination.
- Reject the criminalization and condemnation of legitimate resistance in the national liberation struggle of peoples under occupation and imperialist aggression. Freedom for prisoners in solidarity with the Palestinian cause.
For the martyrs, for the prisoners, and for the peoples in struggle: we remain steadfast in resistance.
For the martyrs, for the fighters, for what has been taken from us and what they continue trying to take, for the prisoners, for the exiled, for everything that the anti-Zionist and anti-imperialist struggle represents.
For all these reasons, we remain in struggle alongside the resistance in all areas directly or indirectly affected by Zionist aggression.
Freedom for all Palestinian political prisoners.
Long live the axis of resistance.
Long live a free Palestine from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea.
Masar Badil – Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement
For global popular mobilization in support of the resistance and against Zionist–imperialist aggression.
