Is it protests?
Or clashes?
Clashes break out as Italians strike demanding action over Gaza
Or disruptions?
Disruption across Italy as tens of thousands protest against Gaza war
Or strikes?
Italian workers’ strike in solidarity with Gaza brings disruptions across the country
Thousands of protesters and strikers calling for solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza took to the streets in Italy on Monday, with some storming Milan’s central train station and clashing violently with police.
Italy’s grassroots unions, which represent hundreds of thousands of people ranging from schoolteachers to metalworkers, called for a 24-hour general strike in both public and private sectors, including public transportation, trains, schools and ports.
The strike caused disruptions across the country, with long delays for national trains and limited public transport in major cities, including Rome.
In Milan, tensions escalated when dozens of protesters dressed in black and armed with batons tried to smash the main entrance of the city’s central train station, throwing smoke bombs, bottles and stones at police, who responded with pepper spray. In Bologna, police used water cannons to disperse a crowd of demonstrators who blocked a highway.
Premier Giorgia Meloni condemned violent clashes sparked by some protesters as “shameful.”
“Violence and destruction have nothing to do with solidarity and won’t change a thing in the lives of people in Gaza,” she wrote on X.
So many in the Credentialed Media, both internationally and in the US, have avoided showing the violence
