German police suppress pro-Palestine demonstration in Berlin

SANAA, Feb. 09 (YPA) – German police stopped, on Saturday, a pro-Palestinian demonstration in Berlin, claiming that music was being played, slogans were chanted and speeches were being made in Arabic.

Hundreds of people had gathered in a square near the Wittenbergplatz metro station in Berlin to take part in a demonstration held under the slogan “Stop the aggression in the West Bank – Don’t supply weapons to Israel.”

The demonstrators carried Palestinian flags and banners reading “Hands off the West Bank,” “Stop arming Israel,” “Gaza is not for sale,” “Freedom for Palestine,” and “Palestinian children deserve to grow up.”

They played music in Arabic and chanted slogans against the occupation and the United States, which the German police refused to do and decided to end the demonstration on the grounds that such behavior was prohibited in advance.

More than 50 demonstrators refused to leave the square and continued to sit there to express their protest against the decision, but the police intervened violently and arrested many of them.