Last spring, I covered a protest for Palestine in Denton, Texas for the North Texas Daily. This is a photo story composed of some of the images I captured that day.

Protesters hold up signs that read "Intifada until victory" in front of the Denton Courthouse on the Square on Jan. 27, 2024. Intifada is Arabic for "uprising.”

Organizer and university graduate student Kara Stuart writes a phone number on the arm of protester and Denton resident Hamzah Abugosh. The protesters could call that number for legal assistance in the event they were arrested.

A protester yells during the demonstration on the square.

An organizer leads the crowd in protest chants. Chants called during the protest included, ‘Free, free, free Palestine,” “DPD, KKK, IDF you’re all the same,” and “Yemen, Yemen, don’t back down, turn another ship around.”

Protesters yell and hold up signs with images of watermelon drawn on them. According to Time, the watermelon became a symbol for Palestine after the 1967 Six-Day War because displaying the Palestinian flag was then criminalized, and the fruit and flag are the same colors.

A young boy sits at the feet of Denton resident and Palestinian-American Jamal Anani during the protest on the Square.

Former Denton City Council member and university English professor Deb Armintor participates in the protest while wearing a sweatshirt that reads, “Jews say ceasefire now.”

Protesters participate in a “die-in” to call attention to those killed in the conflict. The die-in was two minutes and fifty seconds long to symbolize the around 25,000 people that had died in Palestine at the time of the protest.

A protester peeks over the top of a sign that reads, “Free my family,” at the demonstration on Jan. 27, 2024.