Algarve for Palestine organizes awareness-raising activities in solidarity with Palestinian children
The nonpartisan civic platform Algarve for Palestine will hold several awareness-raising events in solidarity with Palestinian children, victims of a prolonged conflict. The events will take place in Faro from August 20th to 30th, and in Portimão on August 23rd.
As a civil society platform, the organizers decided to express their solidarity through daily vigils in Faro on weekdays in August, specifically on the 20th, 21st, 22nd, 25th, 26th, 27th, 28th, and 29th, between 4:30 PM and 6:30 PM, near the CCDR. In Portimão, an awareness-raising event is planned for August 23, 2025, starting at 6:00 PM, at Novo Coreto – Largo do Dique, in front of Casa Inglesa, with exhibitions of images, infographics, and symbols.
The organizers emphasize that Israel has illegally occupied Palestine for over 77 years, violating the human rights of the Palestinian people on a daily basis. These systematic violations are sustained by the occupation and apartheid regime of the State of Israel. In recent decades, Zionist policies and Israeli military incursions have killed hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. Since late 2023, with the beginning of what the platform describes as the "Genocide in Gaza," Israel has been perpetuating and reinforcing its policy of ethnic cleansing, primarily targeting Palestinian children, who represent the future of Palestine.
According to the latest United Nations report , in recent weeks, at least ten Palestinian children have died of starvation every day in Gaza due to the Israeli siege; at least ten children have been amputated every day, many of them without anesthesia, due to lethal weapons and indiscriminate bombing; and at least 28 children have been murdered daily. Since the beginning of the genocide, at least 18,000 children have been killed, with an estimated many more still buried under the rubble. Around 39,000 have been orphaned, and approximately 4,000 have undergone amputations, 1,000 of them without anesthesia. At least 94 children have died of starvation, a number that continues to rise.
Currently, approximately 300 children remain in Israeli prison custody, allegedly abducted from their homes and families without any legal basis. Reports from doctors in Gaza also record injuries to children caused by Israeli snipers, underscoring the gravity of the humanitarian situation.
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