Pro-Pal demonstrations in 50 cities and there are those who praise October 7th

Thousands took to the streets in over fifty Italian cities to demonstrate in favor of Palestine and to demand "an end to the genocide". From Turin to Milan, from Rome to Naples, the marches passed peacefully, with moments of tension with the police that occurred in Turin. And several banners appeared praising October 7, three days after the anniversary of the 2023 Hamas attack on Israeli territory, the 'al-Aqsa flood' operation.

The Palestinian realities in Italy and many student movements, antagonists and associations marched in Rome from the Colosseum to La Sapienza University. At the head of the procession - made up of several thousand people - a banner with the words "The end of the genocide is the end of Zionism". Immediately behind, another with the phrase "7 October Resistance Day". In addition to dozens of Palestinian flags, some Hezbollah flags were also noticed among the protesters. In Turin there were around 8 thousand people at the demonstration called by the city coordination for Gaza and which saw the participation of over sixty groups including movements, collectives, political forces and trade unions. Moments of tension when the head of the march approached the cordon of police forces in Piazza Castello, with pushes, punches and kicks. The action was first repelled with a few truncheons, then the tension was dampened by allowing almost a thousand demonstrators to partially enter the square. At the end of the event, two puppets of Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu were set on fire.

"For us, October 7 represents a day of resistance," said Sara, one of the spokespersons for the Turin coordination for Gaza. Words on which Alessandra Binzoni, Fdi regional councilor in Piedmont, intervenes, stating that "once again, the streets of our city were the scene of a demonstration in which, behind the facade of solidarity with the Palestinian people - she states - a deliberate choice was made to legitimize hatred, violence and the justification of terrorism. Prayer to the brutal massacre of 7 October is unacceptable".

The demonstration in Milan opened with a banner with the words "From the river to the sea Palestine will be free. Against genocide, war, Zionism and all complicity. Palestine free from the river to the sea". "After three years of genocide in Gaza, the Palestinian people continue to suffer massacres. Despite the decline in media attention and narratives of pacification, the oppression has not stopped. It is our duty to bring the Palestinian struggle back to the center of political and popular debate in Italy," the organizers said. Among the signs displayed there is also one with the phrase "7 October like 25 April. Fasci and Zionists hanged". Greta Thunberg also took to the streets in Naples. The Swedish activist joined the demonstrators in the area around the train station, walking through the square with them and chatting briefly with some of the people present. "My message to young people is not to be afraid of being angry, you need to channel your anger and disappointment and use that anger to take back what rightfully belongs to the new generations," he said during a press conference.

Banners with the slogan "Enough complicity with genocide" then in Bologna where signs appeared with the caricature of Trump and Netanyahu and the words "Murderers", and many Palestinian flags. Singing the chants "Intifada until victory", "we need more classrooms and not more bombs" and "we are not enlisting", the collectives who joined the demonstration called by the Young Palestinians in Bologna converged in Piazza Nettuno to protest "against Zionism" and for "the end of the genocide in Gaza".