People with banners and the Palestinian flags, exclaiming “Slobodan Palestine” and other slogans, went next to Colises, participating in the march for which the organizers hoped to attract at least a million people.
“I’m here with a lot of other friends because I think it’s important for all of us to mobilize himself,” Francesco Galtieri’s 65-year-old musician said. “If we all don’t mobilize, then nothing will change.”
Hundreds of Thousands of People Take to the Streets of Rome in Solidarity with Gaza. pic.twitter.com/uix1mi11ee
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Since Israel began to block the flotilla late on Wednesday, protests broke out across Europe and other parts of the world, but in Italy are in several cities everyday occurrence. On Friday, the unions called on the general strike in support of the floti, and protests across the country attracted more than two million people, according to the organizers. The Ministry of the Interior estimates that about 400,000 people participated in the protests.
The Italian right-wing government is critical to the protests, while Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni suggested that people would skip to go to work for gauze only to have an excuse for an extended weekend, Hina reports.
On Saturday, Meloni accused protesters for offensive graffiti that appeared on the statue of the late Pope Ivan Paul II. In front of the main train station in Rome, where the propellest groups held protest.
“They say they went out on the streets because of peace, but they insult the memory of a man who was a true defender and builder of peace. The embarrasser of the people who committed people blinded by ideology,” she said.
(Vijesti.ba)
