Protests Around the World Denounce Israel’s Interception of the Gaza Flotilla
Hundreds of people gathered outside the U.S. consulate in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, calling for the release of 23 Malaysians who had been detained on board the ships. As demonstrators held banners that said “Free Palestine” and “Stop genocide” and waved Palestinian flags, activist Faris Arriffin accused Israel of “kidnapping” individuals attempting to give relief.
On Thursday, social movements and students marched through the streets of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Chants called for severing diplomatic and economic ties with Israel and demanding the release of 11 arrested Brazilians. Leandro Lanfredi, a demonstrator, called for harsher measures, claiming that the volunteers on the flotilla merely intended to transport symbolic aid goods.
According to officials, about 15,000 people demonstrated in Barcelona, Spain, occasionally clashing with riot police. As part of a wave of protests that stretched from Madrid and Paris to Istanbul and Buenos Aires, the event was one of the biggest in Europe. In France, parliamentarians from the left-leaning La France Insoumise party joined calls for the release of Israeli-held colleagues during a gathering of more than a thousand people in the Place de la République in Paris.
Additionally, around a thousand protesters in Athens, Greece, marched to the Israeli embassy while hurling pyrotechnics and flares. Petros Constantinou, an activist, denounced what he described as “an act of piracy,” alleging that Israel was preventing Gaza from receiving even symbolic humanitarian help.
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