Thousands of Texans gathered at the state Capitol on Sunday, calling for a cease-fire in Gaza and an end to Texas aid to Israel.
The demonstrators passed a scroll with the names of people killed in Gaza since the conflict began last month. A plane circled overhead pulling a banner that read, “Save Palestine, cease fire now.”
Mohammed Nabulsi with the Palestinian Youth Movement said organizers of the All Out for Palestine rally wanted to deliver a message to the state Legislature and Gov. Greg Abbott.
"Communities across the state of Texas — from El Paso to Houston to Austin to Dallas to wherever they came from — are here to demand that the state government and the governor, and the entire country as a whole, call for a cease-fire and call for an end to the genocide of our people in Gaza," he told KUT's Haya Panjwani.