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Hundreds gather in Puerto Rico to show their support for Palestinians

(5 Nov 2023) RESTRICTION SUMMARY: ASSOCIATED PRESS San Juan, Puerto Rico - 04 November 2023 1. Wide eople gather in front of the Capitol Hill with Palestinian flags and signs 2. Mid of a man with a Palestinian flag stands in front of the statue of Saint John the Baptist 3. Mid of a young lady stand in front of the Capitol Hill with a sign that reads “Ceasefire - Gaza” 4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Jocelyn Velázquez, Organizer and spokesperson of the protest: "The purpose of this demonstration is to join the global demand that exists today for the cessation of the bombings in Palestine, we echo the expression that enough of the violence, enough of Israel continuing to bombard Palestinian territory and that we are in solidarity with that fight." 5. Mid of a man from the Palestinian community prays in front of the Capitol Hill 6. Mid of a group of people from the Palestinian community pray in front of the Capitol Hill 7. Mid of a group of people from the Palestinian community pray in front of the Capitol Hill 8. Wide of around 300 people gather in front of the Puerto Rico Capitol Hill to protest and call for a ceasefire in Gaza 9. Mid of the vigil organized by the group "Jornada: Se acabaron las Promesas" is called "A flower for Palestine" 10. Close up of flowers 11. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Raed Femi, member of the Palestinian community residing in Puerto Rico: "Here the community is very small but no matter how small we are, we want to unite our voices with the millions of people who have left different cities in the world and we unite our voices with them to call for Peace and for the war to stop in Gaza and for it to be a peace forever." 12. Wide children paint and play in the middle of the protest 13. Mid of two people from the Palestinian community hold a banner that says "Sorry humanity has failed you," in front of the Puerto Rico Capitol Hill 14. Close up of a flag of Palestine around candles and flowers 15. Wide of people gather in front of the Capitol Hill with Palestinian flags and signs STORYLINE: A few hundred people gathered in Puerto Rico’s capital, San Juan, on Saturday to show solidarity with the Palestinians. Members of the Palestinian community and Puerto Ricans joined in a vigil called "flower for Palestine” ito demand a ceasefire and denounce the actions of the government of Israel in Gaza. They laid flowers, waved Palestinian flags and listened to music. Palestinians laid their prayer rugs in the grass in front of the federal building. The conflict started after Hamas militants from the Gaza Strip blew through Israel's highly fortified separation wall on October 7, and attacked an open-air music festival and Israeli border communities. They killed scores of people and abducted men, women, and children - including elderly and disabled. Hamas, an Islamic militant group, openly calls for the destruction of Israel. Israel launched airstrikes on the Gaza Strip and sealed it off from food, fuel and other supplies in retaliation for a bloody incursion, vowing to destroy the militant group. The war is the deadliest of five Gaza wars for both sides. The Palestinian death toll in the Israel-Hamas war has reached 9,448, according to the Hamas-run Health Ministry in Gaza. In the occupied West Bank, more than 140 Palestinians have been killed in violence and Israeli raids. The UNRWA says 72 of its staff members have been killed. Over 1,400 people have died on the Israeli side, mainly civilians killed during Hamas' initial attack, also an unprecedented figure. AP video by Alejandro Granadillo Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...