Overview
- Berlin’s traffic authority has ordered closures from Friday 7 a.m. to Sunday 7 p.m., including the Straße des 17. Juni between Großer Stern and Brandenburg Gate, Yitzhak-Rabin-Straße, and Ebertstraße, with further restrictions along the route on Saturday.
- The march is scheduled to start at 14:30 at Neptunbrunnen/Alexanderplatz and proceed via Karl-Liebknecht-Straße, Unter den Linden and government quarter streets to the Großer Stern for a 17:00 rally and solidarity concert.
- Organizers registered 30,000 participants and say they expect more, while Left party leader Ines Schwerdtner forecasts a record turnout for Berlin’s Gaza solidarity protests.
- Police plan roughly 900 officers for the demonstration and about 1,800 citywide for multiple gatherings, with support from other states, and report no current signs of heightened radicalization risk.
- The coalition behind the protest—including the Palestinian Community Germany, Medico International and Amnesty International—calls for ending German military cooperation with Israel, humanitarian access to Gaza, and the release of prisoners and hostages, while Israel rejects the organizers’ genocide accusation.