Thousands rally in Barcelona to show support for Gaza-bound flotilla intercepted by Israel

(2 Oct 2025)
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Barcelona, Spain - 2 October 2025
1. Pan of protest at Carbonera Square
2. Various of riot police arriving at road blockade and clashing with protesters
3. Zoom out from police barricade to prevent protesters blocking access to highway, to wide of protest
4. Various of protesters chanting and holding pro-Palestinian banners and Palestinian flags
5. Various of protesters marching
6. Mid of political leader talking to the media
7. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Oriol Junqueras, former regional vice-president of Catalonia and political leader:
“We are here today to condemn and protest the genocide in Gaza. And the assault to the flotilla in international waters. Because they are attacks against humanitarian rights as well as international law. And hence against mankind as a whole.”
8. Protesters
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Samia Nawri, university student from Canada:
“Seeing a city like Barcelona coming together and trying to do something about it will hopefully make the government listen.”
10. Protesters
11. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Mariona Garriga, educational worker:
“What happened was predictable. But this has become a much broader issue. We are talking about a State led by (Israel’s PM Benjamin) Netanyahu that are completely violating international law. And then you have the massacre and genocide being committed in Gaza.”

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12. Various of protest
STORYLINE:
According to official figures, some 15,000 protesters gathered in Barcelona on Thursday to protest against the Israeli forces which had earlier intercepted an international flotilla carrying activists seeking to break the blockade of the Palestinian territory of Gaza.

While the event was largely peaceful, riot police did clash with protesters.

Thousands of people supporting the flotilla took to the streets in several major cities after news of the interception broke — including in London, Madrid; Istanbul; Athens, Greece; and Buenos Aires, Argentina — to decry the Israeli operation and the ongoing offensive in the Gaza Strip. Italy’s largest union called for a one-day general strike on Friday.

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