Pro-Palestinian demonstration ahead of Nakba Day in Zurich, Switzerland - 11 May 2024
Participants hold Palestinian flags during a demonstration ahead of Nakba Day under the slogan 'Stop genocide in Gaza' in Zurich, Switzerland, 11 May 2024. Palestinians observe 15 May as Nakba Day, to commemorate the expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Arabs at the time of the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948. More than 34,900 Palestinians and over 1,455 Israelis have been killed, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), since Hamas militants launched an attack against Israel from the Gaza Strip on 07 October 2023, and the Israeli operations in Gaza and the West Bank which followed it.