"Police in Rome said about 250,000 people attended a fourth consecutive day of protests on Saturday after Israel intercepted the 45-boat flotilla trying to reach Gaza last week. Protesters in the Italian capital, including families with children, shouted: We are all Palestinians, Free Palestine and Stop the genocide as many carried Palestinian flags and wore black-and-white-chequered keffiyehs. In Spain, about 70,000 people took to the streets in Barcelona, according to the police, while the government in Madrid reported nearly 92,000 marched in the capital."
"The Global Sumud Flotilla, which was intercepted on Wednesday, departed Barcelona in early September and had been seeking to break the Israeli blockade of Gaza, where a United Nations-backed hunger monitor says famine has taken hold. About 50 Spaniards on the flotilla have been detained by Israel, Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares told public television in an interview broadcast on Saturday."
"Elsewhere, several thousand people marched through the centre of Dublin to mark what organisers described as two years of genocide in Gaza. Along with Ireland, Spain is among the fiercest European critics of Israel's military offensive in Gaza. In Ireland, speakers called for sanctions on Israel, an immediate end to the conflict and Palestinian involvement in any ceasefire plan."
Mass pro-Palestinian rallies erupted across Europe demanding an immediate end to the war in Gaza and the release of activists on a flotilla delivering humanitarian aid. Police in Rome estimated about 250,000 attendees on a fourth consecutive day of protests after Israel intercepted the 45-boat flotilla. Demonstrators waved Palestinian flags, wore keffiyehs and chanted slogans including calls to stop the genocide. Spain reported large turnouts in Barcelona and Madrid, and about 50 Spaniards from the flotilla were detained by Israel. Organisers in Dublin and speakers in Ireland called for sanctions, a ceasefire and Palestinian involvement in negotiations; London police reported hundreds of arrests at related gatherings.
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