The protesters gathered on Thursday in cities around the world to express disagreement with the detainee of the propalestine activists of the Global Sumud Fleet by the Israeli Naval Forces. Demonstrators have also called on European countries’ governments for stricter sanctions against Israel. According to the AFP report, TASR reports this.
Fleet with activists approached Wednesday to the siege of Gaza, where she carried humanitarian aid. However, the Israeli naval forces have stopped the fleet and According to the Israeli representative, more than 400 activists from 41 vessels detained.
This intervention has already triggered protests in several countries on Wednesday. Demonstrations were also held on Thursday, with about 15,000 people marched in the Spanish city of Barcelona. Demonstrators shouted passwords like: “Gaza, you’re not alone,” “boycott of Israel,” and “freedom of Palestine”. The shots on Spanish television showed how the police took away part of the protesters using batons trying to climb barriers. The former mayor of Barcelona, Ada Colau, was also on board one of the ships of the detained fleet.
Hundreds of people marched in front of the Irish parliament in Dublin. Approximately a thousand people gathered in Paris while in the port city of Marseille Police detained about a hundred propalestine activists who allegedly tried to block access to the EUROLINKS weapons manufacturer’s officesaccused of the sale of the military components of Israel.
The protests were also held in Berlin, Hague, Geneva, Athens, Tunisia, Brazil and Buenos Aires. In Italy, where the trade unions called a general strike on Friday as a manifestation of solidarity with a fleet, Thousands of people gathered and urged the Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni to stand up to defend activists. In addition to Rome, where the police were involved in the march of 10,000 people, protests were also made in Milan, Turin, Florence and Bologna.
Approximately 3,000 demonstrators gathered in front of the European Parliament building in Brussels. The protesters in Turkey, whose government is one of the greatest critics of the Israel War in the Gaza Strip, marched to the Israeli embassy in Istanbul with transparent inscriptions such as: “Full embargo on occupation”.
“We are asking for the release of all members of the Global Sumud fleet and all imprisoned people, and as university students, we ask that our universities interrupt all academic and economic ties with the genocidal Israeli state,” One of the protesters mentioned. Dozens of people gathered before the Embassy of the United States – an ally of Israel – in Kuala Lumpur.
