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Around 12,000 people took part in a pro-Palestinian demonstration in Brussels‘ European Quarter on Sunday, calling on the EU to advocate for a ceasefire and an end to Israel’s closure of the Gaza Strip.
Demonstrators carried posters with slogans such as “Stop the attacks” or “Free Palestine.”
In response to a large-scale terror assault by the Islamist Hamas, Israel recently attacked hundreds of targets in the densely populated Gaza Strip.
More than 4,650 Palestinians have been killed, according to the Hamas-controlled Health Ministry.
In France, Paris played host to its first pro-Palestinian demonstration after the organizers — unlike others — publicly condemned the October 7 Hamas attacks on Israel that killed 1,400 people.
Around 15,000 people turned out at the Place de la Republique, according to police figures, to express solidarity with Palestinians and call for a ceasefire.
Several other French cities have approved similar protests over the past few days, after France’s highest administrative court ruled that they were to be banned on a case-by-case basis, not systematically as an earlier instruction by the French interior minister had suggested.
Several thousand people gathered Sunday in the Bosnian capital Sarajevo at a pro-Palestinian rally, with the mayor invoking the city’s bloody siege during Bosnia’s inter-ethnic war in the 1990s.
“The city that has endured the longest siege in modern history, Sarajevo, has the right to stand firmly with Gaza today,” Mayor Benjamina Karic told the crowd in front of the city hall.
“We know what it’s like when there’s no water, no food, we know what it’s like when children are killed,” she said with tears in her eyes.
Sarajevo was under a 44-month siege by Bosnian Serb forces during Bosnia’s 1992-1995 war.
More than 11,500 people, including several hundred children, were killed during the siege.
In Berlin on Sunday, more than 10,000 people joined a rally in support of Israel.
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