The first Palestinian Memorial Day demonstration was peaceful. In the evening in Neukölln the police had to intervene. A march to the Brandenburg Gate is planned for Saturday.
After a peaceful demonstration on the Palestinian Nakba Day of Remembrance in Berlin-Charlottenburg, small riots broke out in Berlin-Neukölln yesterday evening. According to the police, demonstrators set fire to trash cans and pyrotechnics and Bengalos were also set off.
The police arrested a double-digit number of demonstrators, said a spokeswoman. According to the police, around 200 people initially gathered on Sonnenallee after a call via social networks.
The demonstrators then divided into small groups and walked in different directions. The situation calmed down around 1 a.m., a police spokesman said in the morning.
Remembering escape and expulsion in the first Middle East war
According to the police, around 600 people gathered in Charlottenburg early in the evening for a demonstration on the occasion of Palestinian Remembrance Day on May 15th. This commemorates the flight and expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in the first Middle East war in 1948 after the founding of the state of Israel.
The demonstration remained largely without any major incidents. Originally around 1,000 participants were registered under the title “Solidarity with Palestine – 76 years of Al Nakba”.
On Saturday, on the occasion of Remembrance Day, participants in a demonstration entitled “Palestine will be free” want to walk from Oranienplatz in Kreuzberg past the Foreign Ministry to the Brandenburg Gate. 2000 people are registered.
Since the terrorist attack by the Islamist Hamas on Israel on October 7, 2023, there have been constant demonstrations in Berlin in connection with the Middle East conflict and the ongoing Gaza war. There were also repeated riots.
Source: Stern
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