'Free Palestine'. It is the image with which Seville woke up today and that the Lipasam cleaning workers try to erase from the first thing in the morning. The graffiti, carried out on Betis Street, in the Triana neighborhood, on the Guadalquivir River and which can be seen from one of the main arteries of the city, Avenida de Colón, has been considered by the mayor of Seville, José Luis Sanz, as one more act of vandalism than what the Andalusian capital has been suffering in recent days. “We cannot tolerate attacks on heritage and graffiti that destroy our image,” Sanz expressed on his social networks.
The cry in favor of Palestine, in the middle of a bloody war with Israel, has been supported by the community of students who today celebrate a general strike in solidarity with the Palestinian people and in condemnation of the “genocide” that is being committed in Gaza . The mobilization, with concentrations in cities such as Seville, Córdoba, Granada, Málaga, Cádiz and Almería, has been called by the Student Union: “Today we are on strike because we cannot sit idly by while they turn Gaza into a sea of rubble and blood,” the organization expressed.
The spokesperson for the Student Union, Carlos Ochoa, has pointed out "right now a true ethnic cleansing, a genocide, is taking place in the Gaza Strip by the Zionist-fascist State of Israel; in fact, it is not something new, it has been going on for 80 years. years occupying and murdering the Palestinian people and international solidarity is the only way. Furthermore, "all this is happening with the complicity of the European Union, the United States, NATO and also the Spanish government, which has clearly positioned itself speaking of the right of the Israeli government to defend itself," an extreme that we consider "absolutely vomitous." .
"Solidarity with the Palestinian people is shaking the world, where there are authentic uprisings of the working class and youth to say no to the genocide in Gaza," said the spokesperson for the Student Union, which with this day means to "the sisters and brothers of Palestine who are not alone and who will not stand by while Gaza is reduced to rubble and a sea of blood."
Coinciding with the day of the strike, Betis Street was painted with a 'Free Palestine' graffiti, a fact that has caused some controversy in the city as a result of the mayor's determination to erase the graffiti as soon as possible, considering it as the result of one more act of vandalism, the latest in the wave of acts of this type that are taking place in the city.
Some of his followers on fallen branches and trees after the passage of Storm Bernard.
On the other hand, there are users like David Serrano, member of the Council of Más País Andalucía, who have also reproached the first mayor for not condemning the “genocide of Palestine.”
