Dhaka, April 10 -- Thousands of leaders and activists of BNP and its associate bodies began gathering in front of the party's Nayapaltan central office from Thursday noon to attend a rally expressing solidarity with the persecuted people of Gaza and Rafah in Palestine.

The programme also aims to condemn the mass killings, atrocities and persecution inflicted upon the Palestinians by Israeli occupation forces.

Visiting the rally venue around 2:30pm, the UNB correspondent saw thousands of party leaders and followers from different parts of the city arriving in processions.

Carrying national flags, as well as the flags of the BNP and Palestine, along with banners, festoons and placards inscribed with slogans against Israeli mass killings ...