Thousands of people are taking to the streets around the world to demand Israel’s ceasefire in Lebanon and Palestine.

Streets around the world were filled Saturday with protests in support of Palestine, the West Bank and Lebanon. From New Zealand, through the Philippines, Turkey and major cities in Europe, including Madrid. Certain protests marked by declarations of Emmanuel Macron calls for an end to arms deliveries to Israel internationally.

A few days after a year of Hamas attack, the Solidarity Network Against the Occupation of Palestine (RESCOP) announced Madrid an “alarm signal” to the government, asking the executive of Pedro Sánchez to put end of arms trade and relations “diplomatic, institutional, economic, sporting and cultural” with Israelin addition to exerting “maximum” pressure on the Israeli executive.

In Rome The mobilization was not so peaceful. At least 24 police officers and three demonstrators were injured, while five people were arrested for the unrest caused and repressed by the police. The rally in Rome’s Ostiense Square in support of Palestine led to violent clashes between some of the demonstrators and the police.

The demonstration brought together around 7,000 people in Ostiense Square, after the Police Headquarters banned a march citing “public security reasons” and because it considered that its proximity to October 7 could end with “expressions of celebration of the massacre perpetrated in Israel” by Hamas.

Macron against Israel

The protests took place on the same day that French President Emmanuel Macron implicitly criticized the United States by declaring that It is not possible that there are countries calling for a ceasefire in the Middle East, but at the same time they sell weapons to Israel.

“If we demand a ceasefire in Gaza and Lebanon It is consistent not to give weapons to Israel. I believe that those who supply them cannot ask for a ceasefire every day like us but, at the same time, provide weapons,” Macron said this Saturday, during the closing of the 19th Summit of the International Organization of the Francophonie (OIF) in Paris.

The French president said he “regretted” the choice of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to invade Lebanon by land with the aim of fighting against the Hezbollah militias and recalled French solidarity with the Hebrew State. “We are in solidarity with the security of Israel and I say it two days before October 7. We do not forget. I announce that I will receive the families of the Hamas hostages,” he noted.

In the streets of the French capital, thousands of demonstrators called for a international boycott of Israel for the attacks by the Jewish State in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon during a demonstration which took place from the Place de la République to the Place de la Clichy and which was also attended by political representatives, such as the leader of the radical left of Insoumise France (LFI), Jean-Luc Mélenchon.

Protests in Spain

Madrid was not the only Spanish city to take to the streets to protest the Israeli offensive. In Pamplona, ​​thousands of people came in the street to ask for a stop “genocide” in Palestine and the application of sanctions against Israel “for violation of international law”.

Lidón Soriano, on behalf of the Palestine Solidarity Platforms, explained that the march was intended to “remind governments of their obligation to comply with international resolutions” against Israeli attacks in Palestine.

“Governments are obliged not only to comply, but also to enforce international law.. And sanctions must be applied to those who do not comply,” he said, after recalling that the International Court of Justice in The Hague and the United Nations have taken a position against Israeli attacks.Sanctions must be applied to Israel. All types of relations with Israel must be severed. Israel must be isolated by legal imperative,” Soriano stressed.

“Free Palestine”

In London About 200 people gathered in the city center, waving Palestinian flags and signs calling for a ceasefire in Lebanon.

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

“Shame on those who They looked away from the sadistic genocide of childrenmainly in Gaza and the West Bank,” other posters read.

From Oceania to Africa

In Cape Town (South Africa) Several thousand people marched to the National Parliament wearing kufiyas – the traditional Palestinian headscarf – and flags and shouting “Palestine will be free” in a massive demonstration called by the Campaign platform Solidarity with Palestine (PSC).

In Johannesburgsome 2,000 people demonstrated in front of the United States Embassy for the freedom of the Palestinian and Lebanese people and for an end to the war.

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, has often linked it to its own struggle against segregationist apartheid regime (1948). -1994).

In fact, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) is pursuing a case brought by South Africa against Israel for violation of the genocide convention during his military operations in the Gaza Strip.

In New Zealand Protest activities have also started. The Palestine Solidarity Network group in Aotearoa, New Zealand, said there were dozens of events, including a march from the Pukeahu War Memorial to Odlins Square in Wellington on Sunday.

In Australia There will also be events in support of Palestine, including a march on Sunday in Sydney and a vigil on Monday, despite the government’s attempts to stop the calls.

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

In Manila Clashes took place between police and demonstrators protesting against the United States, Israel and in favor of the Palestinians.