For the third evening in a row, protesters gathered outside the Israeli Embassy in the Brussels municipality of Ukkel on Thursday. Several hundred, mainly young protesters demonstrated against the war in Gaza and called for sanctions against Israel. A new protest is planned for Friday afternoon outside the US Embassy in the centre of Brussels.
At around 7pm on Thursday several hundred protesters gathered outside the Israeli Embassy in Ukkel. The turnout on Thursday was slightly lower than on previous evenings. Slogans were chanted in several languages and many of the protesters carried Palestinian flags and/or wore Palestinian scarves. The atmosphere remained fairly calm, and the protesters danced, sang, gave the “peace sign” gesture with their hands and sat on the ground.
There was a large police presence. However, unlike early in the week there was no confrontation between the police and the protesters.
Shortly after 8pm the protesters started moving on towards the Ter Kamerenbos park and onwards to the Francophone free university ULB’s Solbosch where they remained until around 10pm.
The protesters plan to gather outside the US embassy for a further protest on Friday afternoon.