Overview

• Organized by the Democratic Party, Five Star Movement and Greens–Left Alliance, protesters estimated turnout at around 300,000
• Demonstrators marched from Piazza Vittorio to San Giovanni under banners reading “Stop the massacre, stop complicity!”
• Speakers accused Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s government of silence on Israel’s actions and called for recognition of a Palestinian state
• Opposition leader Elly Schlein hailed the turnout as an “enormous popular response” in support of humanitarian aid and hostage releases
• The United Nations warned in May that Gaza’s entire population faces the risk of famine as the conflict’s humanitarian toll intensifies