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Thousands of activists at stations across the Netherlands want an end to the famine in Gaza

De Telegraaf

Netherlands

Thursday, July 24


At least 1,500 people have gathered in the central hall of Amsterdam Central Station. Reporters on the scene also observed that many people have made themselves heard at stations in The Hague, Rotterdam, Utrecht, and Leiden. Nearly a thousand people have gathered at Rotterdam Central Station, and several hundred in Utrecht, The Hague, and Leiden.

The activists bang their ladles on pots and chant"Free Palestine." They also carry cardboard signs with messages like "Have you eaten? They haven't" and "Gaza is a concentration camp, join the resistance." Some activists hold Palestinian flags, while others wear keffiyehs or red shirts, possibly a reference to the Red Line demonstrations from earlier.

At Utrecht Central Station, flyers are being distributed urging people to take action themselves, for example by demanding sanctions and an arms embargo from Minister Veldkamp, boycotting Israeli products, and joining protests.

Utrecht Centraal

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Utrecht Central Station © ANP
Eindhoven Centraal

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Eindhoven Central Station © ANP
Enschede

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Enschede © ANP
Rotterdam Centraal

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Rotterdam Central Station © ANP / MediaTV

Bystanders getting off or on the train sometimes briefly join the demonstrations, as reporters in The Hague and Rotterdam saw. No demonstration was announced at Amersfoort station, but a reporter also saw a group of thirty people there, holding pots and ladles.

The few hundred protesters gathered at Eindhoven station are walking toward the city center, a photographer reports. There's not much police presence there. Reporters also see few police elsewhere.

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