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Tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets in Rome and cities across Italy on Monday amid a general strike to express solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza.<\/p>\n
Those participating in the protests and rallies around Italy included pro-Palestinian groups, trade unions, students, associations and ordinary citizens, young and old.<\/p>\n
An estimated 20,000 people gathered outside Rome’s central Termini train station, which\u00a0shut its doors, with protests elsewhere in the capital leading to traffic gridlock.<\/p>\n
In Milan thousands of people marched from Piazzale Cadorna, led by representatives of the CUB union, under banners that read: “We will block everything, stop the genocide”.<\/p>\n
Protesters in Naples blocked trains in the city’s central station by occupying railway tracks, while thousands of people blocked traffic on the A1 motorway at Calenzano near Florence.<\/p>\n
Other sit-ins and demonstrations were planned in Genoa, Turin, Bologna, Florence, Bari and Palermo.<\/p>\n
The 24-hour general strike, involving the public and private sectors, was called by four trade unions “against the genocide in Palestine” and the “supply of weapons to Israel”.<\/p>\n
The strike, which also called for “unconditional support” for the Global Sumud Flotilla, is causing widespread disruption to public transport\u00a0services, schools, universities, ports and factories across Italy.<\/p>\n
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