Italy, Spain Send MILITARY PROTECTION - To Gaza Aid Flotilla

Italy, Spain Send MILITARY PROTECTION - To Gaza Aid Flotilla

Sept. 26, 2025

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Disruption across Italy as tens of thousands protest against Gaza war. Schools and stations closed and ports blocked in one of Europe’s biggest demonstrations opposing Israel’s offensive.

Tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets in dozens of cities across Italy – shutting schools, disrupting trains and blocking ports and roads – in one of Europe’s largest nationwide protests against Israel’s offensive in Gaza.

The protests came as France and several other countries prepared to recognize Palestinian statehood at the UN general assembly on Monday after the UK, Australia, Portugal and Canada did so on Sunday.

Grassroots unions across Italy called for a 24-hour general strike on Monday in solidarity with the people of Gaza, citing reasons that included the “inertia of the Italian and EU governments” to address the humanitarian crisis in the territory.

From Milan to Palermo, Italians poured on to the streets in at least 75 municipalities across the country. In Genoa and Livorno, dock workers blocked ports over concerns that Italy was being used as a staging post for the transfer of arms to Israel.

In Rome, more than 20,000 people gathered outside the Termini train station waving Palestinian flags and chanting “free Palestine”. Michelangelo, 17, told Agence France-Presse (AFP) he had turned up to support “a population that is being exterminated.”

In the neighbouring Piazza dei Cinquecento, a political science student cited the recently published finding by a UN commission that Israel was committing genocide in Gaza to explain why she and other students were among those protesting.

“This doesn’t mean we’re anti-Jews or antisemitic, and we’re tired of the media and politicians playing on this misunderstanding,” the student, identified only as Alessandra, told La Repubblica. “It just means we’re against a government that’s committing genocide while the international community looks the other way.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/22/disruption-across-italy-as-tens-of-thousands-protest-against-gaza-war

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