Milano Rallies for Palestine

Milano, 10th October 2026

On Saturday, October 10, 2026, a march for Palestine set off from Piazza della Repubblica in Milan at 4 p.m. The call, addressed to residents, organizations and anti-Zionist groups, paid tribute to the more than seventy-three thousand people killed in Gaza, a figure cited in the appeal.

According to its authors, the ceasefire of October 2025 shifted attention away from Palestine without stopping the bombings or the siege. The call also accused the Italian government of diverting welfare resources to the arms industry and of repressing those who contest its complicity with Israel. Demonstrations were announced the same day in cities across Italy.

The head of the column advanced behind two banners against genocide, war and Zionism. Behind them, Palestinian and union flags. Student banners pointed to November 20. Another called a general strike for October 30.

Many of the marchers were very young.

Months after the ceasefire, the march asked for an attention that had moved elsewhere. The slogans were familiar. What the street offered was continuity.

Wide view down a street lined with apartment buildings, seen from behind a dense crowd of marchers, with a large Palestinian flag raised high on a pole above them.

A child wearing a keffiyeh sits on an adult’s shoulders and reaches up to touch a dark awning, with a Palestinian flag blurred beside them and the march behind.

A convex traffic mirror mounted on a rough stone wall reflects the crowd filling the street, with a banner visible among the marchers and buildings curving along the edge of the glass.

A young woman shouts into a megaphone while marching, with passersby and a parked bicycle behind her on the street.

A long hand-painted banner calls for breaking every complicity with Israel and for a general strike on 30 October against war and rising living costs, while two young women walk beneath it.

A street corner with a rack of shared bicycles and scooters in the foreground, as two onlookers seen from behind watch the march advance in the distance, one holding a folded newspaper.

Teenagers stand along a wrought-iron railing above the march, one waving a Palestinian flag while others look down at the street, and a flag draped over a girl’s shoulders at right.

Two hand-painted banners held by young marchers: one reads “War on War” and “20 Nov. in piazza” with a red fist and a bomb, the other calls for the end of genocide and Zionism in Italian and Arabic.

A man stands on a stone ledge before a metal fence, holding a handmade cardboard sign that compares 7 October to 25 April and calls for fascists and Zionists to be hanged upside down.

Marchers in keffiyeh headscarves walk away from the camera along a street of old apartment buildings, mirrored in a glass shopfront, with Palestinian and Lebanese flags ahead and a placard demanding freedom for a prisoner.

A woman in a keffiyeh speaks into a microphone connected to a phone, facing the lead banner and a crowd of marchers with Palestinian flags behind her.

Young marchers carry a white banner with large red letters spelling “Resistenza” and the words “in costruzione” below, crossing tram tracks at a city intersection, with a police vehicle in the background.

A teenager in a fur-lined cap and red shirt holds up a copy of the newspaper Rivoluzione, with a red flag behind, while a blurred bearded man in sunglasses passes in the foreground.

A young man in a grey hooded sweatshirt sits on the edge of a high stone wall above the street, legs hanging down, looking downward.

Workers in red union vests sit in the open back of a van, with red union flags above and marchers in keffiyehs gathered around it.

The head of the march seen from the street level: two large banners, one maroon and one black, held across the road beneath a mass of Palestinian flags.