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European protesters block traffic, vandalise shops after Gaza aid flotilla blocked by Israel
Reuters ^ | 10/03/2025

Posted on 10/03/2025 9:29:43 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

SUMMARY


Pro-Palestinian demonstrators in Europe on Thursday blocked traffic and vandalised shops and restaurants after Israeli forces intercepted a Gaza-bound humanitarian aid flotilla.

Israel faced international condemnation after armed Israeli soldiers boarded around 40 ships that were attempting to break a naval blockade to deliver aid to the Palestinian enclave, arresting more than 400 foreign activists including Swedish climate campaigner Greta Thunberg.

In Barcelona, protesters smashed or spray-painted anti-Israel slogans on windows of stores and restaurants including coffee chain Starbucks, hamburger franchise Burger King and supermarket chain Carrefour, accusing them of complicity in Israel's offensive in the Gaza Strip.

"These protests are the only thing we can do," said Akram Azahomaras, who was among the marchers but said vandalism of stores was counterproductive.

"But doing it like this, I don't think it's right," she added. "We need to do it peacefully, with our words, not with actions."

In Italy, students occupied universities, including Milan's Statale and Rome's La Sapienza, and blocked access to Bologna's university using car tyres, video footage showed.In Turin, hundreds of people blocked traffic on the city's ring road, according to news agency reports.Doctors, nurses, pharmacists and others were due to take part in a flash mob in Rome, shining flashlights and mobile phone lights and reading out the names of 1,677 health workers killed in Gaza, organisers said.

Italian unions have called for a general strike in support of the Gaza aid flotilla, with more than 100 marches or rallies expected across the country.

Italian Defence Minister Guido Crosetto criticized the disruption caused by some of the protesters.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; European Union; Foreign Affairs; France; Gaza; Germany; Hamas; Israel; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: antisemitism; civilunrest; europe; eussr; flotilla; fourthreich; gaza; hamas; ireland; israel; italy; protests; religionofpeace; riotersnotprotesters; riots; rop; spain; switzerland; violence

1 posted on 10/03/2025 9:29:43 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

“Mostly peaceful” /s


2 posted on 10/03/2025 9:30:30 PM PDT by lightman (Beat the Philly fraud machine the Amish did onest, ja? Nein, zweimal they did already!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Would I be correct in assuming, it was mostly people from the religion of peace?


3 posted on 10/03/2025 9:40:17 PM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF ISR pilot. We are a family of aviators. )
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To: SeekAndFind

Not “European protesters.” They’re Islamic jihadists.


4 posted on 10/03/2025 9:47:12 PM PDT by JME_FAN ("It's just the normal noises in here.")
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To: SeekAndFind
Italian unions have called for a general strike in support of the Gaza aid flotilla, with more than 100 marches or rallies expected across the country.

,,, I'd be doing the sums on how the union had performed for me rather than a situation that had nothing to do with my employment and advancing better pay/conditions for me.

5 posted on 10/03/2025 9:55:38 PM PDT by shaggy eel (A long way south of the border.)
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To: JME_FAN

I bet some Euro-trash dumba$$es are mixed in.


6 posted on 10/03/2025 9:56:38 PM PDT by beaversmom (And )
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To: SeekAndFind

The solution is rather simple. Command the boats to land in Gaza with their supplies and thank them, but do not let them leave Gaza as they are now designated as enemy combatants. Thus you are now under the jurisdiction of Hamas and their problem. Dig a Fox Hole and I would suggest dig deep, very deep.


7 posted on 10/03/2025 9:58:33 PM PDT by cpdiii (cane cutter, deckhand, oilfield roughneck, drilling fluid tech, geologist, pilot, pharmacist, MAGA)
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To: SeekAndFind
In Barcelona, protesters smashed or spray-painted anti-Israel slogans on windows of stores and restaurants

Sounds familiar 🤔. Who else did that? Oh. Right. Nazis.

8 posted on 10/03/2025 10:00:22 PM PDT by Texas Eagle ("Throw me to the wolves and I'll return leading the pack"- Donald J. Trump)
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To: JME_FAN; Mark17

No, they are mostly the usual sympathizers with the cause of the day, hating Israel. Oh, and all Jews who don’t hate Israel.

I wonder how many of them are paid demonstrators and rioters, like in USA?


9 posted on 10/03/2025 11:42:38 PM PDT by jimtorr
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To: jimtorr
I wonder how many of them are paid demonstrators and rioters, like in USA?

Probably most of them.

10 posted on 10/03/2025 11:54:56 PM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF ISR pilot. We are a family of aviators. )
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To: Texas Eagle
Barcelona protesters targeting shops
11 posted on 10/04/2025 1:09:57 AM PDT by Long Jon No Silver (Rrily)
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To: Long Jon No Silver
Oh dear. Having trouble posting an image. Done it before no problem. Pretty sure I have the syntax right With link in between the quotation marks
12 posted on 10/04/2025 1:12:44 AM PDT by Long Jon No Silver (Rrily)
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To: SeekAndFind

Repatriate or deport all of them. They’ve already conquered 57 countries they can live in. Why let them take over Europe, too?


13 posted on 10/04/2025 3:19:23 AM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: SeekAndFind

Brilliant. Destroy our own neighborhood, that will show them!


14 posted on 10/04/2025 4:12:40 AM PDT by Openurmind (AI - An Illusion for Aptitude Intrusion to Alter Intellect. )
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To: SeekAndFind

These freaks will protes anything because they’re idiots.


15 posted on 10/04/2025 5:42:55 AM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: cpdiii

>… with their supplies…<

The Israeli navy reported there were no supplies on board. This was all a publicity stunt. But, I agree with you. Let them continue and find out how accepting Hamas is of their life choices.

EC


16 posted on 10/04/2025 5:53:13 AM PDT by Ex-Con777 (Leftists quote the Constitution like an atheist quotes the Bible)
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17 posted on 10/04/2025 8:37:49 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (NeverTrumpin' -- it's not just for DNC shills anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
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To: SeekAndFind
European protesters block traffic, vandalise shops after Gaza aid flotilla blocked by Israel

This just in! There was no aid loaded in to any of the ships..........just the usual empty-headed rhetoric and lies.

It's a declared war!!!!!

BOMB gaza until there is nothing left over but trash and rubble. Bulldoze that in to the river and the sea.

Apply for a permit for an extra large dirt parking lot.

18 posted on 10/04/2025 3:29:09 PM PDT by BFW
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