While filming a protest action last August 9 in Beita, in Palestine’s occupied West Bank, Filipino-American activist Amado Sison was injured as Zionist Israel’s military forces indiscriminately open fire. He said they scampered when the protest was violently dispersed during which he was shot in the thigh. Israeli forces also allegedly used tear gas.

The attack on the protest action follows a relentless attack by Zionist Israel, with the support of US imperialism, on Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and occupied West Bank territory.

Since August 15, 15,000 protested in Chicago at the opening of the Democrat party’s national meeting to challenge its candidate Kamala Harris to stand against genocide. Huge pro-Palestine rallies also continued this August in France, United Kingdom, Sweden and Spain.

At last count on August 18, Israel had killed over 40,000 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and West Bank. Almost 100,000 have been recorded injured in its attacks and hundreds of thousands have been driven from their land.