(29 Mar 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Rome – 29 March 2025
1. Various of demonstrators holding a huge Palestinian flag
2. Close up of a sign reading (English) "You are proof that a better world is possible"
3. Demonstrators holding a banner reading (English/Italian) “Alongside the Palestinian resistance. Intifada to victory. “Exit! Resist! Return! Free Palestine”
4. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Serenella Svariati, protester:
"The message I want to give out is that there is only one land for Palestinian and Israeli people. We need to find a way to allow for both of them to live in this land. Therefore I am against what Israeli people are doing now, which is a true deportation and genocide.”
6. Various of protesters marching
7. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Khali, no surname given, protester:
"I hope Palestine will be free and that all the people will know what humanity is."
8. Mid of protesters
9. Wide of protesters holding a sign reading (Italian) "Stop genocide; Stop agreements with Israel; Freedom for Anan, Ali and Mansour; Free Palestine "
9. Close of protester
10. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Giorgio Cremaschi, protester:
"Today we are here because Palestinian genocide is still ongoing and it continues because the U.S. government, Nato governments, European Union governments, the Italian government are accomplices and supportive of Israel which is committing this genocide "
11. Various of protesters marching
12. Wide of police standing in front of the protest
STORYLINE:
Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of Rome on Saturday to express solidarity with the Palestinian people on the eve of ‘Land Day.’
Land Day is marked annually on March 30 and commemorates the day in 1976 when Israeli security forces shot and killed six Palestinians during demonstrations.
Protesters marched holding a giant Palestinian flag and signs emblazoned with slogans.
Israel broke its ceasefire with Hamas in Gaza last week and has been pounding Gaza with airstrikes since, killing more than 800 people.
Israel has vowed to escalate the offensive if Hamas does not release hostages, disarm and leave the territory.
Hamas has said it will only release the remaining 59 hostages — 24 of whom are believed to be alive — in exchange for a lasting ceasefire and an Israeli withdrawal.
Israel’s war in Gaza has killed over 50,000 people, according to the territory’s Health Ministry. The ministry does not distinguish between civilians and combatants in its count but says women and children make up over half the dead.
The war was triggered by Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack into Israel, in which Palestinian militants killed some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and abducted 251.
AP video shot by Paolo Lucariello
Produced by Francesco Sportelli
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