'No Celebration Until Liberation': Pro-Palestine Protesters Rally in Melbourne on New Year's Eve

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December 31, 2023 at 1:10 p.m.

Pro-Palestine protesters marched in Melbourne, Victoria, during New Year’s Eve celebrations on December 31.

Videos filmed by Matt Hrkac on December 31 into January 1 show protesters gathered at landmarks across Melbourne, waving Palestinian flags, posters, and signs calling for a ceasefire.

The demonstrators held a banner saying, “No celebration until liberation,” and chanted slogans urging Palestinian liberation. Credit: Matt Hrkac via Storyful

Video Transcript

- --Palestine will be free--

- --from the river to the sea--

- --Palestine will be free.

- Out, out, Israel.

- From the river to the sea--

- --Palestine will be free.

- From the river to the sea--

- --Palestine will be free.

- In the thousands, in the millions--

- --we are all Palestinians.

- In the thousands, in the millions--

- --we are all Palestinians.

- --four--

- --occupation never more.

- Five, six, seven, eight--

- Israel is a terrorist state.

- One, two, three, four--

- --occupation never more.

- Five, six, seven, eight--

- --Israel is a terrorist state.

- No celebration--

- --until liberation.

- No celebration--

- --until liberation.

- No celebration--

- --until liberation.

- No celebration--

- --until liberation.

- No celebration--

- --until liberation.

- --to the sea--

- --Palestine will be free.

- From the river to the sea--

- --Palestine will be free.

- From the river to the sea--

- --Palestine will be free.

- From the river to the sea--

- --Palestine will be free.

- From the river to the sea--

- --Palestine will be free.

- Free, free Palestine.

- Free, free, Palestine.

- Free, free Palestine.

- --occupation no more.

- 2024--

- --occupation no more.

- 2024--

- --occupation no more.

- 2024, occupation no more. 2024, occupation no more. 2024--

- --occupation no more.

- 2024--

- --occupation no more.

- 2024--

- --occupation no more.

- 2024--

- --no liberation.

- No celebration--

- --until liberation.

- No celebration--

- --until liberation.

- No celebration--

- --until liberation.

- No celebration--

- --until liberation.

- No celebration--

- --until liberation.

- No celebration--

- --until liberation.

- No celebration--

- --until liberation.

- Free Palestine! [INAUDIBLE] Free--

- 2024--

- --occupation no more.

- 2024--

- --occupation no more.

- 2024--

- --occupation no more.

- 2024--

- --occupation no more.

- 2024--

- --occupation no more.

- From the river to the sea--

- --Palestine will be free.

- From the river to the sea--

- --Palestine will be free.

- From the river to the sea--

- --Palestine will be free.

- --will be free.

- From the river to the sea--

- --Palestine will be free.

- From the river to the sea--

- --Palestine will be free.

- From the river to the sea--

- --Palestine will be free.

- No-- no celebration until liberation. No celebration until liberation. No celebration until liberation. No celebration until liberation. No celebration until liberation. No celebration until liberation.

- --river to the sea--

- --Palestine will be free.

- From the river to the sea--

- --Palestine will be free.

- From the river to the sea--

- --Palestine will be free.

- Free, free Palestine.

- (CLAPPING) Free, free, free Palestine.

- Free, free, free Palestine.

- Free, free Palestine.

- Free, free, free Palestine.

- Free, free Palestine.

- Free, free, free Palestine.

- --river to the sea--

- --Palestine will be free.

- From the river to the sea--

- --Palestine will be free.

- From the river to the sea--

- --Palestine will be free.

- Free, free Palestine.

- Free, free, free Palestine.

- Free, free Palestine.

- Free, free, free Palestine.

- Free, free Palestine.

- Free, free, free Palestine.

- Free, free Palestine.

- --Palestine.

- Free, free Palestine.

- Free, free--

- Happy New Year!

[CHEER]

- No more in '24!

- Free, free Palestine!

- Free, free, free Palestine.

- Free, free Palestine.

- Free, free, free Palestine.

- Free, free Palestine.

- Free, free, free Palestine.

- Everyone!

- Free, free Palestine.

- Free, free, free Palestine.

- Free, free Palestine.

- Free, free, free Palestine--

- --free, free Palestine.

- Free, free, free Palestine.

- Free, free Palestine.

- Free, free, free Palestine.

- Free, free Palestine.

- Free, free, free Palestine.

- Everyone!

- Free, free, free Palestine.

- Free, free Palestine.

- Free, free, free Pales--

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'No Celebration Until Liberation': Pro-Palestine Protesters Rally in Melbourne on New Year's Eve

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