Overview
- Utrecht’s college confirmed a red line will be projected on the Oudegracht side of city hall on Saturday and Sunday during the day and evening.
- The college calls the projection a fitting, visible statement in response to council requests, describing it as a symbol against what it says is genocide in Gaza.
- A municipal spokesperson said usual restraint was set aside because the situation is so serious that a strong statement was promised to the council.
- Utrecht previously became the first Dutch municipality to officially use the term genocide for Gaza and said it wants to receive injured and ill Palestinians in local hospitals.
- Sunday’s ‘Rode Lijn’ march in Amsterdam will start with speeches at Museumplein at 13:00 before a roughly six‑kilometre route begins around 13:45, with safety planning, tram reroutes and road closures coordinated as organisers, including PAX, Oxfam Novib, Save the Children and Plant een Olijfboom, hope for up to 200,000 attendees after earlier crowds of about 100,000 and 150,000 in The Hague.