“Against bombs and truncheons”. A week after the charges in Pisa, students from all over Italy returned to the streets to demonstrate solidarity and closeness to the Palestinian people. This time, however, the voices of the boys and girls also chanted chants and slogans against what happened last Friday in the Tuscan capital.

The spotlight of the protest was, obviously, all turned towards Pisa, where thousands took to the streets to ask for a ceasefire in Gaza waving peace and Palestinian flags. Despite the tense atmosphere on the eve, the procession ended without any problems, as happened in all the other squares in Italy. Some exponents of the Democratic Party and the left took part in the demonstration, punctuated by continuous slogans against "fascist and terrorist Israel", including the president of the province, the dem Massimiliano Angori.

In Florence, however, a few hundred students gathered in front of the US consulate, protected by barriers, before leaving in a procession through the streets of the city. On a long banner the appeal to "stop the genocide in Gaza" and for a "ceasefire". The number of demonstrators then increased to around a thousand people and the procession headed along the Arno river. The beatings in Pisa, stigmatized by the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella himself, therefore did not discourage the protest. Demonstrations, in fact, were organized from North to South. In Rome, students displayed a photo of Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu and Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni smeared with handprints painted red, signifying the "blood of the Palestinians". With the sound of bombs ringing in the speakers, the procession crossed the streets of the capital to end in front of La Sapienza university where the students sang Bella Ciao.

1,500 of them, however, gathered in Milan for the twenty-first pro-Palestine march under the slogan "Let's stop the genocide, let's save Gaza". Before leaving, the demonstrators gathered in a minute of silence to commemorate the dead of the "flour massacre", which saw "150 killed and more than a thousand injured" only because "they wanted to recover something to feed their children ". There was no shortage of slogans against Meloni and Biden here too.

(Unioneonline/D)

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