Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets of Rome to protest against the war in Gaza. The rally was organized by opposition parties condemning the government's “complicity” in the conflict.
“Stop the massacre!” read a large banner amid a sea of posters bearing the slogan “Freedom for Palestine.”
The peaceful protest attracted many people. According to the organizers, there were 300,000 people. Police later said that these estimates were “largely confirmed,” according to the Italian news agency AGI.
The protest moved from the central Piazza Vittorio in Rome to San Giovanni, where speakers took to the stage to call for an end to the violence and condemn what some called the silence of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's far-right Italian government.
The leader of the main opposition Democratic Party, Elly Schlein, described the protest as a “huge popular reaction” against the war. | BGNES