Protesters drive convoy of cars through Chile’s capital in huge pro-Palestinian demonstration
Hundreds of carloads of protesters filled the streets of Chile’s capital Santiago on Friday, in a demonstration calling for urgent action over the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
Reporting from Santiago, Al Jazeera’s Lucia Newman said the caravan of vehicles drove through the Chilean capital, from the city’s Palestinian Club to the Presidential Palace and back.
“The point of this … is to denounce what people here are calling genocide by starvation,” she said, adding that many vehicles sounded their horns in solidarity as the protesters passed.
One of the protesters, Abdalah al-Rifai, said Israel’s government had created “a new method of killing Palestinians, starvation”.
“What kind of world do we live in?” he asked.
Chile’s Palestinian community is the largest outside the Middle East, giving it an influential voice in the country, but the demonstration drew support from a wide cross-section of Chileans, said Newman.
“What we’re hearing from people on the streets is that this has got to stop,” she said.
Protesters in a caravan of vehicles display Palestinian flags during a huge demonstration calling for an end to the humanitarian crisis in Gaza
Protesters march for Gaza in Misrata
In northwestern Libya’s Misrata, demonstrators have once again taken to the streets to express solidarity with Palestinians.
مظاهرة في مدينة مصراتة الليبية تنديدًا باستمرار الحرب الإسرائيلية على #غزة ودعمًا لصمود أهلها#الجزيرة #فيديو pic.twitter.com/foxed5YqPg
— الجزيرة فلسطين (@AJA_Palestine) July 26, 2025
Translation: A demonstration took place in the Libyan city of Misrata to denounce the ongoing Israeli war on Gaza and to show support for the resilience of its people.
Pro-Palestinian protesters disrupt opening of Austrian cultural festival
A protest by pro-Palestinian activists has disrupted the official opening of the Salzburg Festival 2025, a major music and drama festival in the Austrian city.
The protesters unfurled banners reading “Stop the genocide” and yelled “blood on your hands”, interrupting a speech by Austrian Vice-Chancellor Andreas Babler, the dpa news agency reported.
Babler responded by offering the protesters an “open discussion” as they were removed from the packed hall by security, dpa reported.
Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen was among those present at the ceremony.
Israeli families plan march to US embassy in Tel Aviv to call for Gaza deal
Tens of thousands of Israelis are expected to pour into the streets of Tel Aviv in the coming hours for a rally led by the families of captives held in Gaza.
Protesters will march to the branch office of the US embassy in Israel to demand a “comprehensive deal” that would bring back all living and dead captives in the enclave.
This evening, join us at the main rally in Hostages Square. Together we’ll demand a comprehensive deal to bring all the hostages home and end the war.
Following the rally, we will march together to the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv to highlight the overwhelming support of the Israeli… pic.twitter.com/lGstoZO7Tv
— Bring Them Home Now (@bringhomenow) July 26, 2025
‘Bicycle march’ in Helsinki demands immediate aid into Gaza
Hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters in Helsinki, the capital of Finland, have ridden bicycles through the city in a demonstration condemning their government’s silence over the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
Footage posted on Instagram showed protesters riding past the Presidential Palace in the Finnish capital, raising Palestinian flags and chanting for an end to the genocide and for aid to be urgently brought into the territory.
On Friday, Finland’s President Alexander Stubb said in a social media post that the suffering of Palestinians in Gaza was “becoming increasingly inhumane”.
“We are witnessing an unacceptable and shameful man-made famine,” Stubb said, calling for an immediate ceasefire to end the war.
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