Demonstration in the Jordanian capital Amman to denounce Israel's war on Gaza (Reuters)

On Friday, demonstrations took place in Arab countries to denounce the ongoing Israeli war on Gaza for about 5 weeks, and anti-war protests continued in the United States and other countries around the world.

Thousands of Jordanians demonstrated after Friday prayers in the capital Amman to condemn the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip and the killing and wounding of thousands of civilians, women and children.

The demonstrators chanted slogans saluting the Palestinian resistance and the steadfastness of the Palestinians on their land, describing Israel as a "terrorist organization," and calling on the protesters to stop the Israeli aggression on Gaza and cancel the peace agreement between Jordan and Israel.

A demonstration also took place in the southern Jordanian city of Aqaba in solidarity with the people of Gaza, who are being subjected to an all-out Israeli military campaign.

Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi told Al Jazeera earlier yesterday that his country would not sign an energy-for-water agreement with Israel, describing the peace agreement with the latter as a document on a dust-covered shelf.

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Qatar, Lebanon and Morocco

In the Qatari capital, Doha, a rally was held in which participants waved Palestinian flags and chanted slogans supporting the resistance and condemning the Israeli occupation.

In Lebanon, a demonstration took place in the city of Sidon at the invitation of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) and the Lebanese Islamic Group.

Palestinian factions also organized a demonstration in Beirut, in which participants raised figures of the bodies of children killed by Israeli aircraft in Gaza.

Morocco also witnessed mass rallies in several cities to condemn the aggression on Gaza.

In Iraq, hundreds of demonstrators from the neighborhoods of Al-Khadra and Al-Amiriya, west of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, gathered in solidarity in support of Gaza and its people.

The demonstrators held banners condemning the war waged by the Israeli army against the residents of the Gaza Strip and demanded a boycott of all Israeli, American and European goods and products supporting the occupation.

The demonstrators called on the international community to intervene to stop the war, which they described as brutal and targeting civilians and unarmed people inside the Gaza Strip.

Elsewhere in the Muslim world, a demonstration took place today in Muzaffarabad, Pakistani Kashmir, in solidarity with Gaza.

Protesters in San Francisco cut one of the city's main bridges (Reuters)

Demonstrations in America and Japan

In the United States, dozens of American protesters sympathetic to Gaza yesterday blocked one of the main bridges in San Francisco, California, leading to a suffocating traffic crisis in some areas of the city.

Demonstrators held banners calling on US President Joe Biden to call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.

Police said they arrested about 50 protesters and reopened the bridge about three hours after it was closed.

The Palestinian American Women's Association and Code Pink organized a movement in Washington, D.C., urging senators to demand a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.

The activists visited the offices of Democratic senators and called on them to work to stop the war and the Israeli occupation of children.

Health workers joined the movement to show the scale of the bombardment of hospitals in Gaza and the acute shortage of basic medical supplies.

In Japan, a number of Japanese supporters of the Palestinian cause held a rally today in front of the Israeli embassy in Tokyo to protest the Israeli aggression on Gaza.

The protesters raised banners condemning the Israeli aggression on Gaza and condemning the United States and the official Japanese position on the war on Gaza, and the protesters chanted slogans demanding that Israel immediately stop the war as well as stop killing Palestinian children and civilians, and demanded freedom for Palestine.

Source : Al Jazeera + Anatolia