Huge protests in Italy after Gaza aid flotilla halted
More than 2 million people walked in Italy in Italy for one -day general strike to support Gaza residents and humanitarian aid mission.
The Italian trade unions declared the strike after the Global Sumud fleet, which tried to get aid to Gaza, was seized by the Israeli Navy at the beginning of the week. Protests and demonstrations have emerged since then in Europe and globally, but it was particularly strong in Italy.
Italy’s conservative prime minister Giorgia Meloni had sharply criticized the strike. The authority said it would cause a widespread deterioration throughout the country and that it has been politically motivated and targeted its right -wing government.
According to the largest unit of Italy, CGIL, 300,000 people walking only the streets of Rome, while the general strike was around 60 percent of the national participation and stopped all the main services in key sectors, including transportation and schools.
In Florence, protesters approached the gates of the Italian national football team’s training center to demand that the World Cup qualifiers approaching against Israel should not be played due to the war in Gaza.
Italy is planned to host Israel in Udine on October 14th. But UEFA is considering suspending Israel on war. Players were not at the Coveciano Training Center in Florence, but the team will meet there on Monday.
The protesters were peaceful on the opposite side of the street from the football complex, and they were holding a poster that read Italian “Let’s stop Zionism with resistance.”
On Friday morning, about 100,000 people attended a rally in the northern city of Milan. A group of protesters who prevented the city’s highway, after starting to throw a bottle to the police responding with smoke bombs, clashes exploded there.
In isolated friction in Turin, Bologna and Naples, but the majority of protests were peaceful.
“I still believe that all this has not brought any benefit to the Palestinian people. On the other hand, I understand that this will cause too many problems for the Italian people,” Meloni said on Thursday. He said. “Revolutions and long weekends do not go well together.”
The Italian leader faces pressure pressure to change Italy’s attitude as Israel’s long -standing supporter in Gaza conflict, because growing calls in Gaza to stop major human crises.
In the meantime, diplomats from at least 16 countries, Israel’s heart in the heart of the desert, trying to sail to Gaza after trying to visit the citizens of the Saharonim went to the prison.
Representatives Spain, Italy, Greece, France, Germany, Colombia, Chile, Portugal, the Netherlands, Australia, the United Kingdom, Japan, Jordan, Bahrain and Climate activist Greta Thunberg’s own country were among the detained.
Contradictory figures have emerged on the total number of detainees.
While the legal team referred to 473 people, the Israeli prison source was around 450.
With Efe
