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SvennoJ on 05 October 2025
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Spanish club Athletic Bilbao holds solidarity event for Palestine

The event took place at the football club’s San Mames stadium on Saturday before its La Liga match against Real Mallorca.

It was attended by Palestinians, including the founder of the Palestine women’s national team and former captain Honey Thaljieh, as well as UNRWA representatives in the Basque region.

Fans held a large banner on the stadium’s screens that called for a free Palestine and an end to Israel’s genocide, while the players greeted refugees on the pitch.

The initiative is part of a joint project between the Athletic Bilbao Foundation and UNRWA in the Basque Country, which provides physical education lessons to about 8,000 Palestinian refugee children in Syria through 16 teachers appointed in UNRWA-run schools, Wafa reported.


Eight arrested by police at Barcelona’s pro-Palestine demonstration

Eight people were arrested and 20 police injured in clashes between pro-Palestinian demonstrators and police in Barcelona on Saturday.

Police said demonstrators vandalised shops, which they claimed had links to Israel, during a mainly peaceful march of 70,000 people.

People took part in protests in Madrid and other Spanish cities, as well as demonstrations in Rome and Lisbon amid anger after the Israeli interception of the Global Sumud Flotilla that had set sail from Barcelona, trying to break the Israeli blockade of the Palestinian territory.

Out of the 49 Spaniards detained by Israeli forces on the aid flotilla, 21 will fly back to Spain from Tel Aviv on Sunday, Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares told RTVE.


Participants hold a giant Palestinian flag during a demonstration in Barcelona on October 4


Amsterdam protesters demand end to Israel’s war on Gaza

Tens of thousands of people in Amsterdam are expected to take part in the Red Line for Gaza demonstration.

A massive crowd has gathered already here in Amsterdam with more people coming. They are calling for an absolute boycott of Israel, including no more trade and no more arms imports and exports.

This is the third time that the Dutch public comes out massively to demonstrate against the genocide in Gaza but also against what they say is Dutch complicity.

Surveys show that the public in the Netherlands is increasingly very negative about Israel – but this is all not reflected in the policies of the government. In August, the foreign minister resigned after other ministers refused to impose sanctions on Israel.

The demonstration takes place a few weeks before parliamentary elections. According to surveys, nearly half of the people in the Netherlands are considering the genocide in Gaza as a reason for how they are going to vote.

So it’s a very important issue here with many political parties participating as well as Jewish and Palestinian organisations.


Protesters at the demonstration in Amsterdam