PARIS (Dispatches) – Protesters on Paris streets showed on Saturday solidarity with Palestine during an Olympic cycling road competition.
As cyclists passed the 20th arrondissement of Paris, demonstrators displayed Palestinian flags and some wore keffiyehs and scarves. The keffiyeh is a well-known symbol of Palestinian nationalism.
Protesters wearing t-shirts in the colors of the Palestinian flag chanted: “Free Palestine.”
The French gendarme, who wanted demonstrators to remove their Palestinian flags, waited behind activists throughout the race.
Meanwhile, hundreds of demonstrators gathered at the Place de la Nation to demand that the Zionist regime stop its attacks against the Gaza Strip, which have continued for nearly 10 months.
The demonstrators carried Palestinian flags and banners with pictures of children killed in the occupying regime’s attacks.
Flouting a UN Security Council resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire, the Zionist regime has faced international condemnation amid its continued brutal onslaught on Gaza since 7 October.
Nearly 40,000 Palestinians have since been killed, mostly women and children, and over 91,000 injured, according to local health authorities.
Almost 10 months into the Zionist regime’s war, vast tracts of Gaza lie in ruins amid a crippling blockade of food, clean water and medicine.
The regime is accused of genocide at the International Court of Justice, whose latest ruling ordered it to immediately halt its military operation in the southern city of Rafah, where more than 1 million Palestinians had sought refuge from the war before it was invaded on 6 May.