The pressure on Meloni’s government is escalating while Gaza protests the paralysis of Italy Israeli conflict news

Hundreds of thousands of people have moved to the streets throughout Italy as part of a general blow in solidarity with Global Somod fleet It was intercepted by Israel this week while trying to help the Palestinians in Gaza.

More than two million people attended Friday protests after the strike was called by a number of unions “in defense of the fleet”, which was carrying a total of 40 Italians, and “stopping the genocide”, CGIL (Italian General Confederation of Action) wrote on X.

The daily La Stampa, which is based in Torino, said that the mobilization included the public and private sectors, “stopping the railways, air, metro, health care and schools. Among the many opposition works, the demonstrators prevented highways near Pisa, Pescara, Bologna and Milan and closed access to the port of Livorno.

Police told the news agency to Agence France Presse that more than 80,000 people demonstrated in Milan, where a sea of ​​people applauded and waved the Palestinian flag while they were staging in the streets, carrying a huge banner: “Free Palestine, the war machine stopped.”

“This is not just any strike. We are here today to defend the Muslim Brotherhood among individuals, among the people, to restore humanity to the center, to say no to genocide, to the re -arms policy,” Reuters news agency cited its saying.

Melina Veselinovich from the island from Rome said that the turnout throughout the country included “many people from different aspects of life. You have students, you have retired people, many people with their young children are also going out.”

A great turnout in Rome is expected on Saturday

Huge protests for tomorrow in Rome, where CGIL reported 300,000 participants on Friday, with crowds to leave from the city Square, Piazzale Ostienese, at 2:30 pm (12:30 GMT).

“Today, we were hundreds of thousands. Tomorrow for Palestine, we must be a million,” said Maya Issa, the leader of the Palestinian Student Movement, which Daily Ribbolica cited in Rome.

Andrea Disi, an assistant professor in international relations and global policy at the American University of Rome, told the island that the Italian government “signed on its background.”

Disi said that while Prime Minister Georgia Meloni announced this week that Italy will get to know a Palestinian state if the Israeli prisoners were released and Hamas was closed from the future rule, the demonstrators believe that Meloni’s support for a Palestinian state should not have been unconditional.

“I think the pressure will continue to install,” said Disi. He said: “We expect a major march tomorrow, on Saturday, here in Rome, with activists, members, and citizens coming to Rome from Italy.”

He said that their demands include the release of the remaining Italians from Somoud Boutela, the unconditional support of a Palestinian state and “more dangerous sanctions” on Israel because of its war on Gaza.

Al Jazeera Veselinovich said the right -wing government in Italy is unlikely to give in to pressure. “This is unlikely, given that Italy is a major ally of Israel in the European Union. However, in the past few months, the government has adopted a slightly harsher tone towards Israeli officials, specifically due to the measures of such a protest.”

The Italian government criticized the strike, as Meloni indicates that people were using protests as an excuse to spend a longer weekend.

With the protests, the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that Israel had launched four Italian parliamentarians from the forty Italians detained from the fleet. The ministry said that two members of Parliament and two European Parliament member were scheduled to return to Rome on Friday.

A reaction around the world

Protests in solidarity with the human convoy, which included prominent personalities such as climate activist Greta Thonberg and a number of politicians, spread Through the continents On Thursday, from Europe to Australia and South America.

In Barcelona, ​​where the fleet began on its journey, about 15,000 protesters walked, chanting “Gaza, you are not alone”, “boycotting Israel”, and “freedom for Palestine”. The former Barcelona mayor, Ada Colo, was among those who were intercepted at sea and is now facing a possible deportation alongside his activist colleagues, including the grandson of Nelson Mandela.

The fleet organizers in Telegram said on Friday that the Israeli navy “illegally intercepted all our ships – each of which carries humanitarian aid, volunteers, and the design to break the illegal siege of Israel in Gaza.” And they said at 10:29 (07:29 GMT) on that morning, he was intercepted on Marinet, the last remaining boat, at 10:29 am (07:29 GMT).

More than 470 participants in the reservation were detained by the military police, who were subjected to a strict examination, and were transferred to the prison administration, “according to the Israeli police consulted by Agence France -Presse.

Among those detainees of the fleet are more than 20 journalists, according to the RSF media monitoring journalist (RSF), including correspondents from the island, Spain EL PAIS and Italy’s general broadcaster Rai.

The Israeli army praised its naval forces to intercept the fleet, claiming that the humanitarian mission tried to violate the “maritime security blockade”.

“During the Yom Kippur operation, in an operation that lasted about 12 hours, Israeli marine employees thwarted a widespread incursion by hundreds of individuals on 42 marine ships who announced their intention to break the legal security security meter adjacent to the Gaza piece.”

Law groups, politicians, Francesca Albaniz, the United Nations, have suggested that Israel objected to illegal fleet boats.

Protests in Israel

In Israel on Friday, the demonstrators prevented a road to Gaza, and they handed over a sit -in calling for aid that was seized from the fleet to enter the Palestinian territories. Dozens of demonstrators also tried to prevent the soldiers from entering the tape, and some of them carry signs calling for genocide and the imposition of sanctions on Israel.

“These are Israeli peace activists who say they are not part of any larger organization, but from branches of various organizations coming from all aspects of life in solidarity with … the fleet,” said Hamda Qalout from Amman from Amman.

“More than 40 ships” seized by the Israeli navy were now sitting in the port of Ashdod, in the northern Gaza Strip.

She said: “What these demonstrators say is that this fleet should have been allowed to go to the Gaza Strip, but the siege on the Palestinian lands needs to be terminated and there must be other ways to ensure that, whether it is through air, land or sea.”