A few hundred pro-Palestinian protesters are holding a demonstration outside the hotel in Basel, Switzerland, where the World Zionist Organization is hosting a large event marking the 125th anniversary of the First Zionist Congress, conference organizers say.
The demonstrators are waving Palestinian flags and anti-Israel signs on a bridge across from the Messe hotel.
No violence has been reported. The protesters are being kept a good distance from the hotel itself, which is under Swiss police protection.
Over 1,000 Jewish leaders from around the world are gathering in Basel this week for the event, including President Isaac Herzog and other Israeli officials, to mark the anniversary, which is widely seen as a major milestone in the lead-up to the creation of the State of Israel in 1948.
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