Organized by the Boston Coalition for Palestine — whose 45 member organizations include Palestinian House of New England, Palestinian Youth Movement, Jewish Voice for Peace and Workers World Party — Sunday’s action observed the one-year anniversary of the Al-Aqsa Flood, when Hamas fighters broke out of besieged Gaza and attacked […] settlements on October 7, 2023.

On that day, rally emcee Lea Kayali of the Palestinian Youth Movement explained the people of Gaza “broke down the prison doors” and exposed the weakness and complacency of the Zionist apartheid regime.

Over the past year, the Zionist state has escalated its genocide of the Palestinian people, begun by the 1948 Nakba, to unprecedented levels of depravity. IOF terror-bombing, massacres, and mass starvation have likely murdered over 119,000 Palestinian men, women, and children, and have disabled and displaced many hundreds of thousands more. Devi Sridhar, a public health expert at the University of Edinburgh, estimates that the death toll could already be as high as 335,500. (tinyurl.com/bdcsjav2)

In the West Bank, Zionist authorities and settler death squads have killed over 700 Palestinians since October 7. (tinyurl.com/2rhazdre)

“For 365 days our people of Gaza, the people of Palestine and the people of our region who have dared to resist colonialism have been paying the ultimate price for resistance,” said Kayali.

As speakers at the rally noted, the anniversary of October 7 also marks a new phase in the global struggle against Zionist genocide and aggression. Intent on spreading such death and displacement across the region, the Zionist state preceded its invasion of Lebanon with air strikes.