{"id":16855,"date":"2023-10-22T17:01:07","date_gmt":"2023-10-22T17:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/pro-palestinian-rally-in-paris-first-since-oct-7-attacks-the-express-tribune\/"},"modified":"2023-10-22T17:01:07","modified_gmt":"2023-10-22T17:01:07","slug":"pro-palestinian-rally-in-paris-first-since-oct-7-attacks-the-express-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/pro-palestinian-rally-in-paris-first-since-oct-7-attacks-the-express-tribune\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro-Palestinian rally in Paris, first since Oct. 7 attacks | The Express Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Thousands of people waving Palestinian flags and chanting “Gaza, Paris is with you” gathered on Sunday for the first pro-Palestinian demonstration allowed by police in the French capital since the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks on Israel.<\/p>\n

Around 15,000 people turned out at the Place de la Republique, according to police figures, to express solidarity with Palestinians and to call for a ceasefire as the death toll from Israeli strikes in Gaza rose to more than 4,700.<\/p>\n

Police said that the protest was authorised, unlike others, because the declaration by organisers condemned the Oct. 7 attacks on Israel, which killed 1,400 people.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, a protest was authorised at the last minute only after a Paris court overturned the police decision to ban it, and in the last few days, other protests have been authorised in cities across France.<\/p>\n

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This came following a ruling by France’s highest administrative court stating that pro-Palestinian protests were to be banned on a case-by-case basis, not systematically as an earlier instruction by the French interior minister had suggested.<\/p>\n

The protest in Paris was called by the collective “National Collective for a sustainable and just peace between Palestinians and Israelis”, made up of more than 40 organisations, including left-wing party France Unbowed, the CGT trade union and the organisation “France Palestine Solidarity”.<\/p>\n

At a peace summit in Cairo on Saturday, French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna said Israel had a right to self-defence under international law and that a humanitarian corridor to Gaza was necessary and could lead to a ceasefire.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n