Rome protest in support of Palestinians in Gaza

(4 Nov 2023)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Rome, Italy - 4 November 2023
1. Women waving big Palestinian flag at pro-Palestinian demonstration
2. Wide of demonstrators marching holding banner reading (Italian) “Italy out of the wars. With Palestine to victory”
3. Women holding banners
4. Wide of banner reading: “Against the apartheid. Free Palestine”
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Yara Abushab, medical student from Gaza University, living in Italy since October 1:
“It’s a genocide that started on 7th of October. Suddenly, I had everything in this world and suddenly I have literally nothing. They bombed my university, my hospital. I lost a lot of loved ones and right now the last time I heard something from my family was a week ago. So the situation is indescribable, there’s no word that can describe this.”
6. Palestinian flag
7. Mid of women holding Palestinian flag and banner reading (Italian) “Let's get rid of our universities' complicity with Israeli apartheid alongside the Palestinian people”
8. Close-up of woman making two-finger peace sign
9. Close-up of banner reading “Silence in the face of injustice is complicity with the oppressor”
10. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Yousef Salman, President of the Palestinian community in Rome and Lazio region:
“(We are here) To call for a stop to this absurd genocide, this massacre, this continuous slaughter of the Palestinian people at the hands of the Zionist occupier in Palestine. It has been more than 75 years that every two or three years this massacre against the Palestinian people has been renewed. I think the time has come for this world and the international community to stop it and say is enough."
11. Various of demonstrators marching
12. Woman making two-finger peace sign
STORYLINE:
Thousands of protesters gathered in Rome on Saturday to show their support for Palestinian people and against the latest Israel-Hamas war.

The protesters marched through the streets of the Italian capital until they reached Porta San Giovanni Square.

Among those attending the demonstration were members of student movements, left-wing parties, the USB union and others from the Rome Palestinian community.

The Palestinian death toll in the Israel-Hamas war has reached 9,448, according to the Hamas-run Health Ministry in Gaza.

In the occupied West Bank, more than 140 Palestinians have been killed in violence and Israeli raids.

The UNRWA says 72 of its staff members have been killed.

More than 1,400 people in Israel have been killed, most of them in the Oct. 7 Hamas attack that started the fighting, and 242 hostages were taken from Israel into Gaza by the militant group.

Roughly 1,100 people have left the Gaza Strip through the Rafah crossing since Wednesday under an apparent agreement among the United States, Egypt, Israel and Qatar, which mediates with Hamas.

AP video by Gianfranco Stara
Production by Silvia Stellacci

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