Overview

• Berlin deployed about 1,400 officers, including units from several federal states, to secure commemorations, vigils and demonstrations with priority protection for Jewish and Israeli sites.
• The Berlin police prohibited an evening rally planned at Alexanderplatz after online mobilization was found to praise or justify the Hamas attack, and state-security investigations into suspected approval of crimes are underway.
• Earlier in the day, roughly 37 to 40 demonstrators blocked a Friedrichshain intersection, used pyrotechnics and chanted prohibited slogans; police detained 17 people and reported no injuries.
• In Frankfurt, the administrative court ruled a pro-Palestine march may proceed, stating the date alone does not justify a ban and questioning the city’s claims of likely violence.
• Frankfurt’s city government said it would not appeal and instead altered the route and warned participants about criminal expressions, with organizers expecting about 1,000 people between 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. under the slogan “77 Jahre Widerstand – kein Frieden ohne Freiheit!”