Overview

• Striking dockworkers blocked access to the ports of Genoa and Livorno as part of protests seeking to halt arms and goods transfers linked to Israel.
• Trains and local transit faced delays and cancellations and many schools and universities closed, while airline operations continued normally.
• Tens of thousands demonstrated in dozens of cities, with about 20,000 gathered at Rome’s Termini station and large turnouts reported in Milan and Bologna.
• Confrontations erupted in Milan’s central station, where police used pepper spray and tear gas after projectiles were thrown, and water cannon dispersed a motorway blockade near Bologna.
• Organizers demanded suspending Italy’s commercial and military cooperation with Israel and protection for the Sumud Sumud Flotilla, as Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni maintains she will not recognize a Palestinian state for now.