Hundreds of supporters of Israel rally outside UN offices in Geneva

(11 Oct 2023)
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Geneva, Place des Nations, UN offices in Geneva - 11 October 2023
1. Close U.N. building
2. Wide rally participants gathering
3. Close of sign
4. Pan up from sings on ground
5. Wide of speech
6. Close of Mont Blanc
7. Close of woman, girls holding Israeli flags
8. Various of rally attendees, flags and banners
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Dominique-Pierre Walter, secretary-general of Swiss branch of International Christian Embassy Jerusalem advocacy group:
"As Christians, we are on the side of Israel and we are now organizing prayers on one side, but also support for food, for all things that are needed now."
10. Close pin
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Dominique-Pierre Walter, secretary-general of Swiss branch of International Christian Embassy Jerusalem, a religious group:
"It's nothing to do with normal human being. It's like Da'esh or ISIS and all these things. And we don't - as a community, we have to stand on the side of Israel, of course."
12. Wide demonstration
13. Mid Kand in demonstration
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Michael Kand, 40, Tel Aviv pharmacist who is a tourist in Switzerland:
"Hamas is using rape, terror and just mass murder as a weapon -- as a weapon of war, which is obviously forbidden by all the international standards."
15. Wide rally with candles
16. Close candle
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Youri Hazanov, 41, Geneva IT specialist:
"It's not so much about could it have been prevented. No, the questions will come after - you know, the moment for questions and answers will come after. Now it's a moment where we need to understand that we are not fighting an army. We're not fighting a human enemy. We're fighting ISIS."
18. Pan Hazanov leaving
STORYLINE:
Hundreds of supporters of Israel led a somber, defiant demonstration outside the U.N. offices in Geneva on Tuesday to remember the victims of a bloody incursion of Hamas militants into Israel over the weekend.
Diplomats, a Swiss-Israel friendship association and Jewish groups decried the violence that left more than 1,000 people killed, thousands more injured, and untold scores of hostages in the aftermath of the attack by armed extremists who entered Israel from Gaza on Saturday.
Demonstrators included kids draped in Israeli flags and angry adults who held aloft signs outside the U.N. offices that are home to the Human Rights Council and a symbol of international humanitarian law.
They listened to speeches, sang songs and applauded intermittently at the dusk rally in the shadow of the Alpine peak Mont Blanc.
AP Video shot by Jamey Keaten
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I observe most of these pro-Israel rallies are more peaceful, no breaking of cars, no destroying of properties, no throwing of harmful things, there's even no shouting of hate slogans.
With this, those peace-loving locals not joining them, but silently watching at home can still live in peace not noise of hatred.
NO NOISE, NO HATRED
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