This Saturday, thousands of people demonstrated in support of the Palestinian cause in cities around the world. Some concentrations have been marked by episodes of violence, while Israeli abuses against Palestine continue.
The latest combat balance points to 139 deaths, including 39 children, and more than 1,000 injured in Israeli attacks since Monday. Hamas fired more than 2,300 rockets into Israel, killing ten people, including a child and a military man, and wounding more than 560 people.
IN Paris, about 4,200 police officers were mobilized to conduct unauthorized demonstrations at several points in the French capital, with instructions to disperse any congestion with water cannons and tear gas. It happened in the afternoon in the Barbes area in the north of the city, when the authorities intervened against about a hundred protesters who shouted “Palestine will win” and “Israeli assassin”.
In the afternoon, the organizers held a press conference at which they confirmed their intention to hold a peaceful demonstration, condemning the position of the authorities, who accused them of wanting to “worsen the situation and get out of control.”
Thousands of people also demonstrated in the center London, asking the UK government to intervene to stop Israel’s military intervention against targets in the Gaza Strip. Demonstrators gathered in the afternoon at the Marble Arch, near Hyde Park, and from there they made their way to the Israeli embassy, holding Palestinian flags and posters calling for the “liberation” of the Palestinian territories.
IN Madrid, about 2,500 people, including a significant number of young women, held signs with the inscriptions: “the silence of some – the suffering of others” and “Jerusalem – the eternal capital of Palestine.” Arriving at the Atocha transport station, they shouted that Israel’s military intervention in Gaza against the Islamist movement Hamas “is not a war, this is genocide.”
IN CopenhagenIn the Danish capital, three people were arrested Friday night after pro-Palestinian protesters threw stones at the Israeli police and embassy. The demonstration, which gathered about 4,000 people in front of the diplomatic mission, was eventually dispersed due to riots caused by several dozen protesters. According to the DR TV channel, Copenhagen police used tear gas to disperse the protesters.
In several cities Tunisia, demonstrations in support of the Palestinians called for the intervention of the international community to stop the “crimes of the Israeli forces.” In the center of the capital, Tunisia, hundreds of people with Palestinian flags gathered, and then, under police surveillance, marched along one of the main streets.
Although the country was imprisoned due to the pandemic until Sunday, protesters attended to declare that “Tunisians and Tunisians support Palestine” and that “the people want to criminalize the normalization of Israel.”
