A small group of activists on Friday (June 5th) rallied in the Gaza Strip in support of global protests against the killing of George Floyd.

Footage showed dozens of citizens in the southern city of Rafah holding placards and photos of Floyd at the protest.

Activists linked the death of Floyd to the death of Iyad Hallaq, an autistic Palestinian man killed by two Israeli police officers last week.

For the first time in the Gaza Strip, a group of solidarity activists organized in the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, a stand of solidarity with George Floyd who was killed in America , yesterday 20:30 pm , Where dozens of citizens and children participated and the participants uploaded pictures of George Floyd

First interview / Sami Al-Baddari, event coordinator
Video time 03:31-03:50
Our message today is a message against the racial discrimination that occurred against George and the martyr Iyad Hallaq in Jerusalem by the Zionist forces! We, the Palestinian people today in the Rafah governorate, stand in solidarity against what happened in America and what is happening in Palestine.
Video time 03:50-04:09
Video time 03:50-04:09
The scene of what happened to George has a great impact throughout the world because this scene is rejected and according to human rights documents stipulating freedom of non-discrimination and non-killing as if they were one human being.
Video time 04:09-04:29
This scene that happened reflects that America is not a democratic country and that it supports democracy. This is not true, as America exercises this scene before everyone’s eyes. This scene demonstrates the extent of the racism in which America is based and is a friend of Israel practicing the same practice against the Palestinian people.
Second interview / Fathi Abu El-Ela, participant
Video time 04:29-04:54
We, the Palestinian people, sympathize with George Floyd, his family, and the American people. We hope that this latest incident, whether it is in America or in Palestine, will remove this racism that has been practiced on the land of Palestine for years and decades, and the Palestinian people suffer from it by killing, torture and destruction.