For the Colosseum in Italy, government buildings in Northern Macedonia and in many streets of other European cities, Palestinian flags blew on Saturday. Pro-Palestina demonstrators throughout Europe went to the street en masse to protest against Israel’s genocidal violence in Gaza.
The protests took place in Barcelona, Rome, Dublin, London, Paris, Skopje and Copenhagen and followed on Israeli interception of this week’s Global Sumud Flotilla. The auxiliary fleet had more than fifty ships and hoped to get humanitarian goods Gaza. All boats were intercepted by the Israeli navy and hundreds of activists on the ships were arrested.
In Italy, demonstration has been demonstrated for four days in a row. According to the organizers of the protest, a million people were on their feet in Rome, Report Italian media. Local authorities made no statements about the number of protesters.
In addition to the protesters called for the end of the violence in Gaza, they called on their governments to take measures against Israel, such as a trade embargo.
Practers in the Italian capital, among other things, kept signs with ‘Stop the genocide, stop trade with Israel’.
Photo Cecilia Fabiano/Lapresse via AP
Also in Barcelona there was a protest against the war in Gaza.
Photo Emilio Morenatti/AP
People took to the streets in both London and Manchester.
Photo Justin Tallis / AFP, photo Ryan Jenkinson / PA via AP
In Skopje, the capital of Northern Macedonia, activists in government buildings protested.
Photo Georgi Licovski/EPA
Palestinian flags blew on the streets of Copenhagen and Dublin.
Photo Emil Nicolai Helms/ EPA, Photo Clodagh Kilcooyne/ Reuters
In Paris, demonstrators held up a banner with the text: “Stop the collaboration with the Israeli occupier.”
Photo Anna Kurth/AFP
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