Pro-Palestinian protestors take part in a rally in Copenhagen, Denmark on October 14, 2023. A pro-Palestinian rally attracted some 1,000 people to downtown Copenhagen Saturday as Danes showed opposition to a huge Israeli military response in Gaza to last week's bloody incursion into Israel by Hamas. (Photo by Rasmus Flindt Pedersen / Ritzau Scanpix / AFP) / Denmark OUT
Copenhagen: Around a thousand people attended a pro-Palestinian rally in Copenhagen Saturday to protest the Israeli siege of the Gaza Strip in response to last week's bloody attack on Israel by Hamas.
The rally, one of several planned across Denmark, took place under tight police surveillance.
The demonstrations were taking place on the eighth day of a conflict that has left thousands dead and seen 150 Israelis taken hostage.
Marchers converged at Norrebro in western Copenhagen, many carrying flags and banners with slogans such as "A genocide is unfurling" and "Stop killing innocent Palestinian children".
Other banners read "Long live Palestine" or denounced the United States and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
One marcher, who gave his name as Abdelaziz, said it would be "naive" to think such actions could stop Israel.
"We are doing this to appeal to other countries and call on them to contribute to respect for international human rights and not lie, not hide what is happening," he added.
Another participant who gave her name as Lena, 17, said: "People must speak up more about what is happening in Gaza at the moment as millions of civilians are being killed and it's not acceptable."
Health officials in Gaza say more than 2,200 people have been killed.
