Demonstrators protest against Israel’s deadly use of force, continued blockade

Around a hundred demonstrators protested against Israel on Saturday on Prague’s Wenceslas Square, decrying a deadly raid this week by Israeli forces against an aid ship that had sailed in defiance of the country’s blockade of Gaza. Nine activists were killed in clashes aboard the Mavi Marmara during the commando strike. Protestors in Prague chanted slogans and carried a black coffin symbolising the victims. The turnout in the Czech capital was much smaller than in a number of other major European cities: in Paris, 5,000 demonstrated; London also saw several thousand.