Sydney’s Bruised Pro-Palestinians Retake City Streets as Gaza Genocide Continues: In Photos

Local pro-Palestinians gathered on Gadigal land in Hyde Park on Sunday, 22 February 2026, to march through the Sydney CBD. The constituents were in the park to express their grievances about a 29-month-long mass murder and starvation program against the Palestinians of Gaza. And this was the first such mobilisation since the New South Wales police brutalised the 9 February Herzog rally.

Raising the fact that Israel has conjured a hell on Earth in the Gaza Strip that continues to grow evermore heinous is all Sydney’s pro-Palestinians have been doing since this mass atrocity commenced. But the Minns Labor government has led an ongoing demonisation campaign against them, due to their political inconvenience, and then the NSW state unleashed the violence.

Speaker after speaker addressed the horrors of an ongoing mass killing site having been established by apartheid Israel, but they also inevitably came back to 3,000 NSW police officers having kettled in 20,000 Herzog protesters and then running horses and themselves into the crowd, as they liberally pepper sprayed confined people, and punched and brutalised the elderly and those with disabilities.

Sydney Criminal Lawyers was in the park to call for an end to the Gaza genocide and further, to listen to the outrage about the state having set the cops on its own people for the crime of assembling and wanting to conduct a protest march to communicate political opposition, with a two year precedent set that proves Palestine Action Group protests are nonviolent and peaceful processions.