Thousands Gather in Global Pro-Palestinian Demonstrations as Support Grows

In Paris, thousands took part, peacefully, in a rally “in support of the Palestinian people”, banned by the authorities, notably shouting “Gaza, Gaza, Paris is with you!” and “It is humanity that is being murdered, children of Gaza, children of Palestine,” noted an AFP journalist.

In Marseille, in the south-east of France, an authorized demonstration brought together 1,800 people according to the police headquarters, 4,000 according to its organizers.

In the British capital, for the third consecutive weekend, a procession was formed at the call of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) movement: it left the banks of the Thames to follow a route leading to Parliament Square, not far from Big Ben, while more than 1,000 police officers were mobilized.

In Zurich, the demonstrators numbered some 7,000, according to the organizers, “several thousand”, according to the police.

There were 2,000 in Lausanne, 1,800 in Geneva, more than a thousand in Bern.

Across the Atlantic, thousands of pro-Palestinian demonstrators descended on Brooklyn, the largest borough of New York, on Saturday.

The New York megalopolis, home to between 1.6 and two million Jews – the largest Jewish community in the world after Israel – and hundreds of thousands of Muslims, has been shaken for three weeks by demonstrations, rallies and vigils for the Palestinians. or for Israel.

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2023-10-29 03:04:00
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