More than 2 million people Italy Rally over 100 cities on Friday for one -day general strike to support residents Gaza And a humanitarian aid mission, Italy’s largest union said.
Italian Unions announced the strike after Global Sumud Floatilla, which was trying to break the Israeli naval blockade to assist Gaza. Israel Navy force Wednesday night. Since then, performance and performance have been bouncing all over Europe and globally, but they have been particularly strong in Italy.
Italian conservative prime minister Goria Meloni The strike was rapidly criticized. He estimated that it would cause widespread disintegration across the country and said it was politically motivated and targeted its right -wing government.
According to the CGIL Union, 300,000 people alone marched through the streets of Rome, while the national average participation in the general strike was around 60%, stopping all the main services in major areas including transport and schools.
In Florence, the protesters approached the Gate of the Training Center of the Italian National Football Team to demand their upcoming World Cup qualifiers against Israel due to the war in Gaza.
Italy is scheduled to host Israel in Udin on 14 October. But the UEFA is considering suspending Israel on war. The players were not at the Coversiano Training Center in Florence, but the squads will call there on Monday.
The protesters appeared peacefully behaving in the opposite direction of the road from the football complex, who read a banner in Italian, “Let’s prevent zionism with resistance.”
On Friday morning, around 100,000 people attended a rally in Northern city of Milan. A group of protesters blocking the city highway began to throw bottles at the police, who responded with smoking bombs.
Turin, Bologna and Naples also had isolated skills, but most of the protests were peaceful.
Meloni told reporters on Thursday, “I still believe that all this does not benefit the Palestinian people. On the other hand, I think it will create a lot of problems for Italian people.” “Revolutions and long weekends don’t go well together.”
Italian leader has been facing increasing pressure to change the Italy’s stance as a long -supporting Israeli in the Gaza conflict, as Gaza has led to increasing calls to prevent a large -scale humanitarian crisis.
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Associated press journalists Paolo Santalusia and Silvia Stelaki contributed to the report.