In central Paris, thousands of people marched with signs reading “Stop the cycle of violence” and “Doing nothing, saying nothing is complicity” to demand a ceasefire.
Protests in Paris, France
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LONDON (Portal) ProPalestinian demonstrators protested in London, Berlin, Paris, Ankara and Istanbul on Saturday to demand a ceasefire in Gaza and punish Israel after its military stepped up attacks on Hamas.
In London, television footage showed large crowds holding sitdown protests and blocking parts of the city center before marching to Trafalgar Square.
Protesters held signs reading “Freedom for Palestine” and chanted “ceasefire now” and “by the thousands, by the millions, we are all Palestinians.”
Police said they had arrested eleven people. One person was arrested for displaying a poster likely to incite hatred in breach of antiterrorism legislation.
The United Kingdom supported Israel’s right to defend itself after Hamas killed 1,400 people and took more than 240 hostages in an attack in southern Israel on October 7.
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Echoing Washington’s stance, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s government refrained from calling for a ceasefire and instead favored humanitarian pauses to allow aid to flow into Gaza.
In central Paris, thousands of people marched with signs reading “Stop the cycle of violence” and “Doing nothing, saying nothing is complicity” to demand a ceasefire.
It was one of the first large gatherings in support of Palestinians legally allowed in Paris since the October 7 Hamas attack.
French authorities have banned some previous proPalestinian gatherings amid concerns about public unrest.
France will host an international humanitarian conference on Gaza on November 9 to coordinate aid to the enclave.
(Reporting by Toby Melville, Clotaire Aichi, Claudia Greco, Ali Kucukgocmen, Bulent Usta and Mert Ozkan)