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Thousands of people began to rally this Saturday in March support for Palestine around the world, on the eve of a year since the Hamas terrorist attack on Israeli territory and the start of Israel’s military invasion of the Gaza Strip, which claimed the lives of more than 41,000 people still.

From New Zealand to Europetakes place on Saturday with peaceful protesters calling for an end to the bombings in Gaza and the West Bank and an end to the Israeli government’s campaign against Palestinians, although in Rome at least 24 police officers and three protesters were injured and five people were arrested in the unrest. suppressed by law enforcement agencies.

A rally in Rome’s Piazza Ostiense in support of Palestine led to violent clashes between some protesters and police, who responded with batons and gas to prevent them from leaving the permitted area.

The protest drew about 7,000 people to Plaza Ostiense after the Police Headquarters banned the march, citing “reasons of public safety” and because it felt its proximity to October 7 could end up “expressing the celebration of a massacre committed in Israel.” from Hamas.

Thousands of people demonstrated in Madrid asking the Spanish government to put pressure on the Israeli government to end the war in the Middle East and the “genocide” in the Gaza Strip.

In statements to the media, representatives of the Solidarity Network Against the Occupation of Palestine (RESCOP), the organizer of the march, said the mobilizations, which were repeated in several Spanish cities, were a “wake-up call” for the government.

In Paris, thousands of protesters also called for an international boycott of Israel due to attacks by the Jewish state in Paris. Gaza Strip and Lebanon in a protest that ran from Place de la République to Place Clichy and also included political representatives such as the leader of the radical left Insoumise France (LFI), Jean-Luc Mélenchon.

Mélenchon asked students to “fly Palestinian flags” at universities starting Tuesday, October 8 – the day after the first anniversary of Hamas’s deadly attacks on Israel – in response to a ministerial order limiting symbols of the Palestinian cause.

IN London About 200 people gathered in the city center with Palestinian flags and signs calling for a ceasefire in Lebanon.

Activists marched shouting “Free Palestine” from central Bedford Square to Russell Square, next to the British Museum, they carried Iranian flags and banners with slogans such as “we do not support genocide” and “Zionism is racism.”

“Shame on those who turned their backs on the sadistic genocide of children, mainly in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank,” read other posters.

From Oceania to Africa

IN Kano City Several thousand people marched to the national parliament carrying keffiyehs – the traditional Palestinian scarf – and flags and shouting “Palestine will be free” in a mass protest organized by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) platform.

IN JohannesburgAbout 2,000 people protested for the freedom of the Palestinian and Lebanese people and for an end to the war in front of the US Embassy.

The South African government is a staunch defender of the Palestinian cause, and the African National Congress (ANC), the party of Nelson Mandela and the country’s current president Cyril Ramaphosa, often links it to its own struggle against the segregationist apartheid regime (1948). -1994).

In fact, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) is hearing a case brought by South Africa against Israel for alleged violations of the Genocide Convention during its military operations in the Gaza Strip.

Protests also began in New Zealand. The Palestine Solidarity Network group in Aotearoa, New Zealand, said there were dozens of events taking place on Sunday, including a march between the Pukeahu war memorial and Odlins Square in Wellington.

Australia will also host pro-Palestine events, including a march on Sunday in Sydney and a vigil on Monday, despite government attempts to stop the calls.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said holding a pro-Palestinian event on the 7th, during which Hamas militants killed more than 1,200 people, would be an “incredible provocation” and cause “great suffering.”

However, a court on Thursday allowed organizers to march on Sunday and vigil on Monday in Sydney.

In Bangkok, dozens of Thai and foreign demonstrators protested, shouting slogans such as “Bombing children is not self-defense” and demanding Palestinian freedom.

In Manila, clashes broke out between police and demonstrators protesting against the US and Israel and in favor of the Palestinians.

The Philippine-Palestinian Friendship Association said on its Facebook page that today’s plan included a march from Luneta Park to the US Embassy in Manila, where authorities have beefed up security.

EFE