Pro-Palestinos demonstrators blocked traffic and shops and restaurants in Europe on Thursday after Israeli forces intercepted a flotilla full of humanitarian aid in Gaza.
Israel has faced an international condemnation after the armed Israeli soldiers approached about 40 ships trying to break a naval block to offer help to the Palestinian encycling, keeping over 400 foreign activists, including the Swedish climatic activist Greta Thunberg.
In Barcelona, the demonstrators broke the glass and painted anti-Israeli slogans spray on shops and windows of the restaurant, including the Starbucks coffee chain, the Hamburge Burger King franchise and the Carrefour supermarket chain, accusing them of complicity in the offensive of Israel in the Gaza.
“These protests are the only thing we can do,” said Akram Azahomaras, who was among the protesters, but considered counterproductive vandalism.
“But doing it in this way does not seem correct to me,” he added. “We have to do it peacefully, with our words, not with the actions.”
In Italy, the students have occupied University, including Statale, Milan and Sapienza, of Rome, and blocked access to the University of Bologna using car tires, showed video images.
In Turin, hundreds of people blocked traffic in the city ring road, according to the reports of the news agencies.
Doctors, nurses and pharmacists, among others, were preparing to participate in a flash mob in Rome, illuminating phones and cellular lights and reading the names of the 1,677 health professionals killed in Gaza, according to the organizers.
The Italian unions defined a general strike in support of Gaza Flotilla, with over 100 gears or gears scheduled throughout the country.
The Minister of Defense of Italy, Guido Crosetto, criticized the inconvenience caused by some demonstrators.
“Someone really believes that blocking a station, airport, motorway or the destruction of a shop in Italy will bring relief to the Palestinian people?” He wrote in X.
Throughout Europe, thousands of demonstrators took to the streets in Dublin, Paris, Berlin and Geneva to condemn the interception of the flotilla for Israel. There have also been demonstrations in Buenos Aires, Mexico City and Karachi.
In Istanbul, a crowd gathered out of the Israeli embassy with lanes with slogans such as “Israel is massacring humanity, not Gaza” and “not being silent, not sitting, getting up”
The war in Gaza killed over 66,000 people, according to the Palestinian authorities.
Israel began his offensive after the attack led by Hamas in Israel on October 7, 2023, in which about 1,200 people were killed and 251 were taken hostage, according to Israeli registers.
Source: Terra
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