Thousands of protesters in Rome and Lisbon call for ceasefires in Gaza, Lebanon
Israel has been at war with the Gaza-based militant group Hamas since last October after it launched an attack on southern Israel that killed 1,200 people. More recently a new front has opened up in Lebanon where the IDF launched a ground operation on 30 September.
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00:00Hundreds of demonstrators have marched through central Rome to call for a ceasefire in Gaza.
00:07Chanting free, free Palestine, they also demanded an end to the fighting in Lebanon.
00:13Israel and Lebanon-based militant group Hezbollah have traded almost daily fire since the war
00:17in Gaza broke out in October, displacing thousands on both sides of the border.
00:23On the 30th of September, Israel launched what it called a targeted ground operation
00:27in Lebanon, it says, to find and eliminate Hezbollah positions.
00:32There were similar scenes in the Portuguese capital Lisbon, where thousands marched calling
00:36for an end to the hostilities in Gaza and criticizing what they say is the complicity
00:41of Western governments who sell arms to Israel.
00:44The war in Gaza broke out on the 7th of October last year after Hamas militants launched an
00:49incursion into Israel, killing around 1,200 people and taking 250 hostages.
00:56The Hamas run health ministry says more than 42,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza
01:01in just over a year of war, but the ministry doesn't distinguish between combatants and
01:06civilians in its count.