Italy had not known such a mobilization for years. Monday, September 22, processions of tens of thousands of people found themselves in various cities in the country, in solidarity with Gaza, a few hours before the opening of the UN top for the recognition of a Palestinian state. In recent days, various trade unions had called for a general strike on Monday, starting with the Unione Sindacale Di Base (USB), of communist inspiration. According to the Union, 500,000 people went to the street in no fewer than 65 cities on the peninsula. Figures that are difficult to verify, but a remarkable crowd for a country that is rather reluctant to prove. In Rome, afternoon, more than 20,000 people were at the forecourt of the Termini station, the central station of the Italian capital, including many students. “Against the genocide, let’s block everything!” »»we can read on a long banner.
Subsequently, the procession was compacted until the point of collecting between 50,000 and 100,000 protesters, before he went to the device and blocked a slope to the highway. “This two years of war has aroused the conscience of humanity, it is two years since we were mobilized, and we only succeed in having a large number of people on the street, to say that this massacre stop,” Explains Fabiola, head of the Roman restaurant, crossed in the procession and with a flux-shirt with a complicated T-shirt Free Palestine.
“Mobilization is also so that the government mobilizes to protect the fleet on its way to Gaza”, “, Acquires his neighbor, Adriana, teacher in primary education in a school in the capital. Several boats in the humanitarian fleet “Global Sumud Flatilla” have The Italian ports of Genoa and Catania leave in recent days. Adriana is not used to demonstrating, she says, but this date of September 22 is particularly symbolic because of the General Assembly of the United Nations in which France and other countries would recognize Palestine: “Our Mars is a reaction to the UN Security Council and in particular in the United States that continued to put their veterinarian to defend Israel.” “
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