About 1,000 pro-Palestinian demonstrators march through Berlin, closely watched by police for any banned anti-Semitic slogans and separated from pro-Israel rallies.
More than 1,000 officers are on guard in the rainy capital for the rally against Israel’s Gaza operation that officials in the Hamas-controlled territory say has killed more than 845 people, most of them civilians.
A few hundred counter-protesters are waving Israeli flags and while the groups shouted at each other, no violent clashes are reported.
“We are keeping the groups apart,” a police spokesman says.
Protesters shout slogans such as “Israel, child killers” and “Stop killing the innocents” but avoided chants against “Jews.”
Jewish groups and German politicians had voiced outrage in recent days that protesters at past pro-Gaza rallies had chanted anti-Jewish slurs and hate speech, in the country that perpetrated the Holocaust.
Police in Berlin made clear that no anti-Jewish chants or calls to violence would be tolerated, and that burning flags and effigies would also be forbidden.
–AFP
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