From Cairo to Baghdad, tens of thousands of people demonstrated in Arab capitals today in support of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip who are being bombarded by Israel after the Hamas attack.

In Cairo, tens of thousands of demonstrators, some thousands of them in the iconic Tahrir Square, chanted “Bread, freedom, Arab Palestine” and “The people want the fall of Israel,” paraphrasing the two main slogans of the 2011 “revolution” that toppled President Hosni Mubarak.

On the 14th day of the war between Israel and the ruling Hamas in Gaza, rallies were held in most Egyptian cities, according to local media.

In Baghdad, several thousand people took to the streets, including many supporters of Hashd al-Shaabi, a coalition of armed groups close to Iran, Israel’s sworn enemy and supporter of Hamas.

Protesters gathered in front of a bridge leading to the Green Zone, the fortified district where the United States embassy is primarily located.

“We support the Palestinian people against the occupying Israeli entity,” Ali Hussein, a 45-year-old taxi driver, told AFP.

Demonstrations were also held in the Iraqi provinces of Nineveh (north) and Di Qar (south).

In the western part of the country, near the border with Jordan, a few hundred followers of Hasd al-Shaabi started a sit-in protest “in support of Gaza”.

Anger was also high in Jordan, a country neighboring Israel with which it has signed a peace agreement. In the capital Amman, more than 5,000 people gathered in front of the Grand Husseini Mosque chanting “Save Gaza!” and “Open the borders to support the Palestinian people.”

In Tunis, thousands of protesters gathered in front of the French embassy.

“Out of France”. “The people want the ambassador (of France) to go,” they shouted, expressing their support for Hamas.

Dozens of protesters gathered near the US embassy in the northern suburbs of Tunis and burned an American flag. Police prevented them from approaching the embassy, ​​according to local media.

In Bahrain, that small Gulf country, some 2,000 people chanted “Death to Israel!” and “Death in America!” in the Diraz Mosque.

“I’m a mother, I can’t imagine what the families of Gaza are going through,” says one protester, with her baby in her arms, during a march held after prayers.

“We want an end to normalization and the expulsion of the Israeli ambassador,” she adds, referring to the 2020 Abraham Accords negotiated by the United States that led Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and then Morocco to establish formal relations with Israel.