The police presence around the US embassy in Tunis was stepped up on Wednesday. These reinforcements come in addition to the efforts of the security units already present at the site, TAP’s correspondent on the ground reported, adding t hat these security forces were deployed along the motorway leading to the suburb of La Marsa. This reinforcement come in anticipation of protests and popular rallies that are breaking out to denounce the continuous Israeli atrocities committed against the population of Gaza since October 7, the date on which the Palestinian resistance launched its operation ‘Al Aqsa Flood.’ TAP correspondent also reported that the security forces had blocked access to the headquarters of the US embassy in Tunis, checking the identity of passers-by and searching vehicles, at a time when US President Joe Biden was visiting the Zionist entity to express his “solidarity” with it. On the protest front, dozens of students from a private university in ‘Berges du Lac’ marched in support of and solidarity with the Palestinian people and to denounce the crimes of the Zionist occupation and the massacres it is committing against them in Gaza and the West Bank. The demonstrators chanted slogans calling for the liberation of Palestine and the removal of Jewish settlers from Palestinian lands, and waved the Palestinian and Tunisian flags. Ons Harath, an engineering student at a private university, told TAP the demonstration was “spontaneous”. ‘It was aimed at denouncing the crimes of the Zionist occupation and did not represent any union or party,’ she added. Most of the students who took part in the march refused to take their exams and preferred to take to the streets in a symbolic march to denounce the Arab and international silence on the crimes of the Zionist entity in the besieged Gaza Strip, the protester further indicated.
Source: Agence Tunis Afrique Presse