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Pro-Palestinian protests held across world
Many European countries have been the scene of anti-Israel protests since the beginning of the regime’s brutal strikes on the Palestinian territory in response to the Hamas’s October 7 operation inside the occupied territories.
On Saturday, protesters in Spain, Portugal, Greece, Germany, Italy, France, the Netherlands and Switzerland called for a cease-fire in Gaza and a halt to arms supplies to the Israeli regime.
In Spain’s capital, Madrid, around 4,000 protesters gathered in the center of the city to condemn the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
Palestinians have been “crammed” in southern Gaza and “now they are displaced again from one place to another while there are no more safe places”, said 57-year-old Jaldia Abubakra, referring to Israeli evacuation orders in the southern city of Rafah.
Demonstrators demanded that their government and the international community take “urgent, concrete and effective measures against Israel, to stop arms trade with Israel and to boycott Israeli companies involved in the massacre.
In the Portuguese capital of Lisbon, pro-Palestinian students camped out on the campus of the University of Lisbon to show solidarity with Gaza.
Hundreds also rallied in Athens to show solidarity with Palestinians and denounce the relentless Israeli attacks on Gaza, which has killed nearly 35,000 civilians – mostly women and children.
In the Netherlands’ capital, Amsterdam, approximately 15,000 people took part in anti-Israel’s protests.
Nearly 3,000 people in German’s capital Berlin filled the streets of the city, calling for a halt to Germany’s arms supply to Israel. Demonstrators demanded an end to the genocide in Gaza, chanting slogans such as “Israel is a terrorist state”, “Germany finances, Israel bombs”, “Freedom for Palestine” and “Long live Palestine.”
Speeches stressed that Germany is complicit in Israel’s war crimes by supplying weapons to the regime.
Thousands of pro-Palestinian protesters also filled the streets of cities in several Italian cities as well as France’s capital, Paris.
Demonstrations were also held in Japan, South Korea and the US where students have been also staging protests against Israel’s genocide for weeks.