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Pro-Palestinian demo set for Paris despite ban Issued on: 15/05/2021 - 15:30 Walid Atallah, centre, president of the Association of Palestinians in the Ile-de-France region, at a press conference in Paris GEOFFROY VAN DER HASSELT AFP 3 min Paris (AFP) Pro-Palestinian demonstrators vowed to hold a protest in Paris on Saturday despite a police ban to avoid any flare-up in anti-Semitic violence after the worst fighting between Israel and Hamas since a 2014 war. Police ordered shops to close from noon along the planned route, from the heavily immigran...

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators vowed to hold a protest in Paris on Saturday despite a police ban to avoid any flare-up in anti-Semitic violence after the worst fighting between Israel and Hamas since a 2014 war.

PARIS: Police officers used tear gas and water cannons in Paris on Saturday to try and disperse a pro-Palestinian rally held despite a ban by authorities, who fear a flare-up of anti-Semitic violence during the worst fighting between Israel and Hamas in years. Thousands of people converged in the heavily immigrant Barbes neighborhood in the north of the capital, defying orders issued by loudspeakers that the march was illegal. Officers blocked off wide boulevards as well as narrow streets where some of the protesters were forced to retreat, while knots of residents and passersby watched or r...

Israeli military: Hamas leader target of deadly Gaza strike Police break up pro-Palestinian protest in Berlin Security forces in Berlin have dispersed a protest in solidarity with Palestinians in the capital’s Neukölln district, police said, adding that demonstrators threw bottles, stones and firecrackers at officers. Police also said those demonstrating were not adhering to the city’s strict coronavirus measures during the protest. Thousands of protesters had marched peacefully in the same neighborhood earlier on Saturday. Pro-Palestinian marches were taking place elsewhere in Berlin, F...

Rallies are taking place to mark Nakba Day and voice support for Palestinians. Meanwhile, a Gaza tower housing several global media organizations collapsed after being hit by an airstrike. Follow DW for the latest.