Protestors lined the streets of Caracas in a large demonstration; however, this protest was not against the Maduro administration: it was a show of solidarity with Palestine.

President Nicolas Maduro called the march forth on Thursday to show Palestine that the Venezuelan people supported them, according to Noticias24. Chanting, "Resist, Palestine!" the group of people made their way from Morelos Square to Diego Ibarra Square, where protestors repudiated Israel's attacks on Gaza.

Maduro had called for the protest during the end of the national congress of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), according to TeleSur. He vowed to do his part to help the children refugees, including building an orphanage.

"I have already decided to build a foster home with the name Hugo Chavez to bring children injured in the war and who have lost their parents, who are without their mothers, who have been orphaned," he said, according to TeleSur.

"We are going to bring them to Venezuela and raise them with love; and with the agreement of the Palestinian state we are going to find some of these children Venezuelan mothers and fathers," added Venezuela's socialist president.

The Latin American Herald Tribune reports that Maduro has called on the nations of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA) to help shelter the children. Founded by Cuba and Venezuela, the organization includes Bolivia, Nicaragua, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Santa Lucia and Antigua and Barbuda as well as the founding countries.

Maduro is one Palestine's most zealous defenders in the region, according to the Latin American Herald Tribune. He initiated a solidarity campaigned called "SOS Palestine" earlier this month, calling for an end to Israel's bombardment of Gaza. The name appropriates the slogan from the "SOS Venezuela" campaign from February that consolidated international support for the student protestors opposed to Maduro.

"There is no war, Israel, recognized by the UN, is an occupying power which has been evicting Palestinians from their historical territory and has launched a war of extermination to evacuate Gaza and seize the Strip," Maduro said at the end of his speech.