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Germany: Berlin police clear pro-Palestinian protest camp – DW
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https://www.dw.com/en/germany-berlin-police-clear-pro-palestinian-protest-camp/a-68932337
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German police on Friday moved to clear a pro-Palestinian protest camp, which had been set up outside the Chancellery building in Berlin since early April.
The camp consisted of around 20 tents housing around 20 people who have been demanding an end to German arms shipments to the Israeli military and what they call the “criminalization” of the Palestinian solidarity movement, while also carrying out other activities such as workshops.
“Germany must end weapons exports and stop enabling the Israeli genocide, the starvation, the blockade, the bombing,” protest organizer Jara Nassar told DW.
Police said protesters had repeatedly breached restrictions, such those protecting green areas, and committed criminal offenses, including incitement to hatred and the use of unconstitutional symbols and forbidden slogans.
"They’ve forbidden us from using languages which aren’t German or English, they have criminalized our prayers, our songs, our workshops, and now their official reasoning is that we had a sofa which was damaging the grass …
Israel has denied accusations that its ongoing military operation in Gaza, which it says is aimed at destroying the Palestinian militant group Hamas, constitutes genocide.
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