Barcelona Students Strengthen Solidarity Wave With Global Sumud Flotilla
The sign reads, “They’ve attacked the flotilla. We’re emptying the classrooms!” X/ @Calaixwebloc
October 3, 2025 Hour: 9:41 am
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‘Gaza, You Are Not Alone!’, the Spanish shout.
On Friday, thousands of students demonstrated for the second consecutive day in Barcelona, blocking access to several university faculties to demand an end to what they called the genocide of Palestinians and to protest Israel’s detention of activists from the Global Sumud Flotilla, which had been sailing with humanitarian aid to Gaza.
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Mobilized by education unions, participants waved Palestinian flags and shouted, “Gaza, you are not alone,” “Israel kills, Europe sponsors,” “Boycott Israel” and “From the river to the sea, Palestine will win.”
Several banners also read messages such as “Stop killing children,” “Against genocidal imperialism, free Palestine” and “Let others’ suffering not leave me indifferent.”
Eduard Creus, spokesperson for the Student Union, praised the unified struggle of students in a new strike day, following Thursday’s demonstrations by 6,500 students in Barcelona and 4,000 in Madrid.
On the campuses of the University of Barcelona and the Autonomous University of Barcelona, students blocked access to prevent professors and students from entering classrooms and to ensure the education strike was effective. There were also student sit-ins from early morning in several faculties across Catalonia. A teachers’ strike at schools and high schools was also called for the same day.
Meanwhile, the protest camp that began on Thursday in solidarity with Gaza and the Global Sumud Flotilla — which Israel intercepted while sailing toward the Palestinian enclave — woke up on Friday with about 30 tents and the stated intention of being “permanent.” Judit Piñol, a spokesperson for the Flotilla Support Movement, said about 120 people slept at the site, located near the World Trade Center.
These protests add to other pro-Palestinian mobilizations called in dozens of Spanish towns in recent days to stop what demonstrators denounce as the genocide being carried out in Gaza by Israeli occupation forces.
teleSUR/ JF
Source: EFE
