Major rallies were held in Washington, London, Tel Aviv this weekend to protest 40 years of the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. In Tel Aviv, thousands of Israeli peace activists and Palestinians marched to mark the 40th anniversary of the Six Day War when Israel captured the West Bank and east Jerusalem from Jordan, the Golan Heights from Syria and the Gaza Strip and Sinai Peninsula from Egypt. Palestinians living in Gaza and the West Bank have lived under Israeli military occupation ever since. This is Israeli peace activist Dr. Dalit Baum.

Dr. Dalit Baum: “Well, we have organized here a very, very wide coalition of organizations from all different spectrums of Israeli political left, and we are going to march in Tel Aviv in order to remind people that this is 40 years to the ’67 war and the occupation of the territories in the West Bank and Gaza and the Golan Heights, and we are thinking that we need to walk around town — this very quiet, very, very content city — and remind people that the occupation goes on, and it needs to stop.”

Meanwhile, organizers said more than 5,000 people rallied against the occupation in Washington, and more than 20,000 people marched in London.