Lebanese protestors demonstrated before the French Embassy in Beirut on Tuesday to condemn the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip in light of France's support of the Israeli occupation in its acts of terror against Gaza.

The protestors who took to the streets before the French embassy did so in response to calls from national political parties, seeing as Paris has been an accomplice in the genocide being carried out against the Palestinian people.

The demonstrators gathered before the embassy's entrances, with representatives from numerous parties giving statements regarding the gathering and condemning the Israeli occupation's crimes in Gaza and the French support for them.

In an attempt to suppress global solidarity with Palestine, France has been responding to pro-Palestinian rallies by completely banning any protests and gatherings in support of the occupied people.

Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin earlier in a letter that protests in support of occupied Palestine were "likely to generate disturbances to public order."

Earlier in October, hundreds demonstrated in the streets of the French city of Marseille, waving Palestinian flags, while two pro-Palestinian demonstrations in Paris had already been banned for fear of outbursts.

Moreover, Lebanon early in October saw hundreds of angry youths raising Palestinian flags and koufiyyeh scarves demonstrated outside the US embassy in the suburb of Awkar and the French embassy in Beirut, denouncing the two country's complicity in the Israeli occupation's crimes against the Palestinian people. 

Watch | #French Police attack and use gas canisters to disperse pro-#Palestine protesters in Paris.#France pic.twitter.com/UYRFN6VOSq

— Al Mayadeen English (@MayadeenEnglish) October 12, 2023

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Multiple videos had surfaced on social media showing the French Police and Gendarmerie violently suppressing the pro-Palestine protests.

France is home to some of Europe's largest Muslim and Jewish populations and Zionist influence is rampant in Europe. 

Demonstrations in solidarity with Gaza were held in several Arab and European countries. 

Using fear of antisemitism as a blatant excuse for suppression of free speech, Darmanin said the government is heightening police protection of Jewish sites, including schools and synagogues.

Pro-Palestine protests across the US and Canada

Hundreds of pro-Palestine demonstrators gathered in Washington, D.C., as well as across several US cities, in a show of support for Palestine and denounced "Israel".

For the fourth day in a row, many North American cities witnessed demonstrations in which banners were raised and slogans were chanted demanding the US administration waive aid to "Israel" amid the ongoing brutal Israeli aggression on the Gaza strip.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau also attacked pro-Palestine demonstrations held across Canada, dubbing them a "glorification of violence" before heading over to a pro-"Israel" rally in a show of support to the Israeli occupation government.

Claiming Resistance is "terrorism", Trudeau writes, via his X account, that "The glorification of violence is never acceptable in Canada – by any group or in any situation. I strongly condemn the demonstrations that have taken place and are taking place, across the country in support of Hamas’ attacks on Israel. Let’s stand united against acts of terror."

Making no reference to the massacre of Gaza, the history of Israeli occupation dating back to 1948, nor the beginning of the era of the siege of Gaza, Trudeau sent a message to "Israel" in a recently published statement claiming, without the consent of a large number of pro-Palestine supporters, that "Canadians stand with you," adding "And our government stands ready to support you. Our support for Israel is steadfast."