“Gaza, Gaza, You’re Not Alone”: 600 Voices Rally in Puerto del Rosario Against the Palestinian Genocide
Around 600 people took to the streets this Saturday in Puerto del Rosario demanding an end to the genocide against the Palestinian population in Gaza. The march started after 18:15 from the fountain in the town’s main square and followed the seafront avenue to Playa Chica. Along the route participants displayed and shouted slogans such as “Stop the genocide in Palestine,” “Free, free Palestine,” “Netanyahu, criminal, to the criminal court,” “Peace with justice and dignity for Palestine,” “Palestine will win,” and “Israel murders, Europe sponsors.”
“Stop the genocide.”
From the organization Canarias por Palestina, Marco Rodríguez explained that the protest’s aim is to “add the voice of Fuerteventura, just as the voice of the Canary Islands is being added, to the worldwide outcry for Palestine, for an immediate cease‑fire and for a peace with justice and dignity for the Palestinian people.”
Rodríguez told this outlet that citizens “are doing their part” and asserted emphatically that “millions of people around the world, public opinion, stand with Palestine. Israel has completely lost the battle for public image by behaving like a terrorist and genocidal state.”
“If governments respond to the general interest of their citizens, it is clear that they must now take the step, and we will press as hard as we can in that direction.”
He reiterated that “Israel has completely lost the battle for public image, precisely because it behaves like a terrorist and genocidal state.”
Empty shoes, countless victims: mostly children, women and the elderly
Installation at the old Lime Kiln
After completing the march, demonstrators arrived at the former Lime Kiln, where they were met by a striking installation of dozens of empty children’s shoes lined up on the ground. The organizers said the display symbolised the thousands of lives cut short in Gaza, “mostly children, women and the elderly.”
“We must look at those empty shoes, we must see them,” Rodríguez explained. “If we do not want to keep consuming horrific images, at least think that those shoes once belonged to people with rights and dignity, as worthy as ours.”
Protesters unfurled a large Palestinian flag that covered much of the Lime Kiln and read the manifesto.
Closing the march
Following the chants, a minute of silence was observed in memory of the “martyrs.” In a moving moment, the names of some of the thousands of people killed were read aloud.
The manifesto demanded that the international community immediately and unconditionally enforce a cease‑fire and allow massive humanitarian aid coordinated by the UN.
It also called on the Spanish government and parliament for the immediate end of arms and military‑technology trade with Israel, the severing of diplomatic, academic, sporting and cultural ties, and the imposition of international sanctions.
The text further urged support for South Africa’s case before the International Court of Justice and for investigations of genocide at the International Criminal Court.