Protests erupt around the world after Israel intercepts Global Sumud Flotilla

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VIDEO SHOWS: WRAP OF EDITS RELATED TO PROTESTS AROUND THE WORLD AGAINST THE ISRAELI INTERCEPTION OF THE GLOBAL SUMUD FLOTILLA

EDITORS PLEASE NOTE: THIS EDIT IS A WRAP AND CONTAINS NO FRESH MATERIAL

SHOWS: Italians protested near Rome's historic Colosseum on Thursday evening (October 2) against the interception by Israeli forces of the Global Sumud Flotilla - a group of around 40 boats carrying aid and more than 400 foreign activists - that was travelling to Gaza. (0052-ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS/FLOTILLA-ITALY)

ROME, ITALY (OCTOBER 2, 2025) (REUTERS - Access all)

1. PROTESTERS SINGING "BELLA CIAO" AND WALKING WITH RED FLARES

2. PROTESTERS WALKING PAST THE COLOSSEUM

3. (SOUNDBITE) (English) TOUR GUIDE, MICHELA GRISTINA, SAYING:

"I think that was a very good thing (the aid flotilla). I think that they break the block, and I'm with them, absolutely. And I hope that they are still well, even if they are in their (Israeli forces) hands."

4. SIGNS READING (Italian): "Land is for those who harvest it, Farmers for Gaza" / "People save the people"

Protests were also held in other parts of Italy, and in some cases police clashed with the demonstrators. (0104-ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS/FLOTILLA-ITALY-CLASHES)

NAPLES, ITALY (OCTOBER 2, 2025) (REUTERS - Access all) (NIGHT SHOTS)

5. VARIOUS OF POLICE FACING OFF AGAINST PRO-PALESTINIAN PROTESTERS OUTSIDE PORT OF NAPLES

6. POLICE CLASHING WITH PROTESTERS

BOLOGNA, ITALY (OCTOBER 2, 2025) (AGTW - No use Italy) (NIGHT SHOTS)

7. POLICE STANDING ALONG ROAD, SOME WITH SHIELDS

8. TEAR GAS SHELLS ON GROUND, PEOPLE WALKING PAST

9. POLICE WITH SHIELDS STANDING

MILAN, ITALY (OCTOBER 2, 2025) (AGTW - No use Italy) (NIGHT SHOTS)

10. VARIOUS OF PRO-PALESTINIAN PROTESTERS LIGHTING FLARES

A demonstration with about 30 people took place in front of the Israeli embassy in Paris, in support of the flotilla. (9971-SRAEL-PALESTINIANS/FLOTILLA-FRANCE)

PARIS, FRANCE (OCTOBER 2, 2025) (REUTERS - Access all)

11. VARIOUS OF PROTESTERS WITH PALESTINIAN FLAG CHANTING SLOGANS ACROSS FROM ISRAELI EMBASSY

12. POLICE STANDING ON GUARD

13. ISRAELI FLAG AT EMBASSY

14. (SOUNDBITE) (French) PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY TEACHER IN PARIS SUBURBS WHO DECLINED TO GIVE HIS LAST NAME, RYAN, 26, SAYING:

"I came to demonstrate in front of the Israeli embassy to show our support for the people of Gaza and to demonstrate that the French people denounce the genocide currently being committed in Gaza by the Israeli army. I also heard about the news of the arrest of the Gaza flotilla last night and this morning."

15. PROTESTER WITH FLAG ACROSS FROM EMBASSY

Protesters vandalised international food chains such as Starbucks Coffee and Burger King during a pro-Palestinian protest in Barcelona. (9900-ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS/FLOTILLA-SPAIN-PROTEST)

BARCELONA, SPAIN (OCTOBER 2, 2025) (REUTERS - Access all)

16. VARIOUS OF PROTESTERS RAMMING METAL BARRIER AGAINST DOOR

17. POLICE VAN ARRIVING AT SCENE

18. PROTESTERS CHANTING

19. PROTESTERS MARCHING AND CARRYING PALESTINIAN FLAGS

20. SIGN, READING (Catalan): "Bombing children is not self-defence!!!!"

21. PROTESTERS BANGING ON THE WINDOW OF A BURGER KING RESTAURANT

22. PROTESTER WRITING "STOP GENOCIDE" ON WINDOW

Hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters similarly took to the streets of Dublin. (0046-ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS/FLOTILLA-IRELAND)

DUBLIN, IRELAND (OCTOBER 2, 2025) (REUTERS - Access all)

23. VARIOUS OF PRO-PALESTINIAN PROTESTERS MARCHING THROUGH DUBLIN AND CHANTING

24. PROTESTER HOLDING SIGN, READING (English): "STOP ISRAEL NOW", PROTESTERS HOLDING PALESTINIAN FLAGS IN BACKGROUND

25. (SOUNDBITE) (English) PROTESTER, MIRIAM MCNALLY, 57, WHOSE DAUGHTER IS ON A FLOTILLA SHIP, SAYING:

"My daughter, Naoise Dolan, author and journalist, is on the follow-up flotilla, 'A Thousand Madleens'. They're about six days away from where the 'Global Sumud' were today. And so I'm here in solidarity, number one, with Palestine, because they're being subjected to genocide every day. And number two, with the flotilla and my daughter."

26. PROTESTERS MARCHING WITH SIGNS AND FLAGS

Several Dutch families gathered outside the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Thursday in the Hague, calling for Israeli authorities to release their loved ones, detained after the interception of the Global Sumud Flotilla. (9891-ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS/FLOTILLA-NETHERLANDS)

THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS (OCTOBER 2, 2025) (REUTERS - Access all)

27. VARIOUS OF SCUFFLES BETWEEN PROTESTERS AND POLICE OFFICERS

28. (SOUNDBITE) (English) WIFE OF ACTIVIST CHRISTOPHER HAUSLER DETAINED IN THE ALMA SHIP, CELIA, SAYING:

"Yes, of course, I'm worried about him. I mean, I think in the end they're going to be okay. Who's not okay unfortunately is the Palestinians who are still blockaded. There's still a genocide. Countries like the Netherlands are continuing to send weapons."

29. POLICEMAN HOLDING UP BATON TO PROTESTERS

30. PROTESTER HOLDING SIGN, READING (English): "FLOTILLA IS NOT A THREAT TO ISRAHELL / IT IS HUMANTARITY AID"

In Istanbul, hundreds of people gathered outside the Israeli consulate on Thursday for a second consecutive night to protest Israel's interception of the flotilla. (0085-ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS/FLOTILLA-TURKEY-PROTEST)

ISTANBUL, TURKEY (OCTOBER 2, 2025) (REUTERS - Access all) (NIGHT SHOTS)

31. PROTESTERS MARCHING TOWARDS ISRAELI CONSULATE IN ISTANBUL CARRYING BANNER, READING (English and Turkish): "End the blockade, freedom for the Sumud Flotilla"

32. PROTESTERS HOLDING SIGNS AND PALESTINIAN FLAGS

33. PROTESTERS HOLDING SIGNS AND CHANTING IN TURKISH, "A thousand salutes to Gaza, which is resisting the blockade"

34. (SOUNDBITE) (Turkish) ACTIVIST AND UNION LEADER, AHMET ORS, 51, SAYING:

"Turkey, Jordan, Egypt—many states in the Middle East, I don't know, the states here and there in the West—are indifferent to this (war in Gaza). People are constantly accelerating and escalating this process. We are, in fact, part of that (Sumud) Flotilla. That's how the people here see themselves, clearly and openly."

35. PROTESTERS CHANTING IN TURKISH, "Down with the Zionist state of Israel"

Thousands of protesters rallied outside the Israeli embassy in Athens on Thursday. (9970-ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS/FLOTILLA-GREECE PROTEST)

ATHENS, GREECE (OCTOBER 2, 2025) (REUTERS - Access all) (NIGHTS SHOTS)

36. PROTESTERS GATHERED IN FRONT OF ISRAELI EMBASSY IN ATHENS HOLDING BANNERS, SMOKE FLARES AND CHANTING (Greek): “FREEDOM, FREEDOM TO PALESTINE”

37. PROTESTERS GATHERED IN FRONT OF ISRAELI EMBASSY HOLDING PALESTINIAN FLAGS AND SURROUNDED BY RIOT POLICE AND BUSES, CHANTING (Greek): “PALESTINE SHOWS US THE WAY TO FIGHT, WE WILL REACH GAZA NO MATTER WHAT”

38. SMOKE FLARES THROWN TOWARDS ISRAELI EMBASSY, RIOT POLICE STANDING GUARD IN FRONT OF BUSES

39. PROTESTERS CHANTING AMONGST SMOKE FROM FLARES (Greek): “FREEDOM, FREEDOM TO PALESTINE.”

40. PROTESTERS CLAPPING, HOLDING PALESTINIAN FLAGS AND CHANTING (English): “PALESTINE WILL BE FREE, PALESTINE WILL BE FREE. GAZA, GAZA DON’T YOU CRY.” / PROTESTER WAVING PALESTINIAN FLAG

Tunisians gathered near the U.S. embassy in the capital city of Tunis to protest against Israel's interception of the flotilla. (0128-ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS/FLOTILLA-TUNISIA)

TUNIS, TUNISIA (OCTOBER 2, 2025) (REUTERS - Access all) (NIGHT SHOTS)

41. VARIOUS OF PROTESTERS SCUFFLING WITH POLICE AS THEY TRIED TO REACH THE U.S. EMBASSY IN TUNIS, CHANTING AGAINST ISRAEL’S INTERCEPTION OF THE GLOBAL SUMUD FLOTILLA

42. PROTESTERS GATHERED NEAR U.S. EMBASSY IN TUNIS WAVING FLAGS, CHANTING AGAINST ISRAELI INTERCEPTION OF THE GLOBAL SUMUD FLOTILLA

43. WOMEN PROTESTERS CHANTING

44. PROTESTERS CLAPPING, CHANTING AND WAVING PALESTINIAN FLAGS

Protesters gathered in Brazil’s capital, Brasilia, and Rio de Janeiro on Thursday to demand the release of Brazilian activists detained by Israel after their humanitarian flotilla was intercepted en route to Gaza. (0144-ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS/FLOTILLA-BRAZIL)

BRASILIA, BRAZIL (OCTOBER 2, 2025) (REUTERS - Access all)

45. VARIOUS OF PROTESTERS GATHERED IN BRASILIA, CHANTING SLOGANS, WITH BANNER READING (Portuguese): “Freedom for the Global Sumud Flotilla / Free Palestine / End diplomatic relations with Israel already.”

46. ACTIVIST IN CAP HOLDING BANNER

47. FREE PALESTINE STICKER

48. RIOT POLICE OFFICERS GUARDING MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL (OCTOBER 2, 2025) (REUTERS - Access all)

49. PROTESTERS HOLDING BANNER

50. PROTESTER WITH PALESTINIAN KEFFIYEH WAVING FLAG

51. SOUND TRUCK LEADING PROTESTERS