Tens of thousands of protesters rallied across the world in support of Palestinians and condemnation of Israel as it intensified its strikes on Gaza.
On Sunday, thousands of Australians joined pro-Palestinian rallies, despite police threats to curb them amid tension after Hamas launched a resistance campaign on Israel eight days ago.
Nations across the developed world are clamping down on such protests out of concern the conflict could trigger violence at home, with France banning them for fear they could disturb public order.
Protesters waved Palestine flags and chanted "Free, free Palestine" as hundreds of police patrolled the area around one of the largest rallies in Sydney, capital of Australia's most populous state of New South Wales.
Thousands also protested at pro-Palestine rallies in Adelaide, the capital of South Australia, and in the Victorian state capital of Melbourne, said the Guardian Australia news site.
On Saturday, tens of thousands of people rallied in London and other UK cities at pro-Palestinian demonstrations, amid police warnings that anyone showing support for Hamas could face arrest.
Protesters marching through the heart of the British capital were shadowed by a heavy police presence of more than 1,000 officers.
Similar rallies took place in Manchester in northern England, Edinburgh and Glasgow in Scotland, and other UK cities.
Thousands turned out for a pro-Palestinian rally in Istanbul on Sunday.
"They've been chasing people out of their homes for years. Now they're not killing people one by one day by day, they're killing them en masse," one of the marchers, Bayram Atabey, a shopkeeper in his thirties, told AFP.
In Geneva, several thousand people demonstrated in a pro-Palestinian rally on Saturday as Israel readied troops for an expected invasion of the Gaza Strip.
On Saturday, thousands of pro-Palestinian protesters gathered in the US capital, marching past the White House to chants of "Free Palestine" as the death toll continued to climb in the conflict between Israel and Hamas.
In Copenhagen, around a thousand people attended a pro-Palestinian rally on Saturday to protest the Israeli siege of the Gaza Strip. The rally, one of several planned across Denmark, took place under tight police surveillance.
On Sunday, thousands marched through the streets of Amsterdam in a pro-Palestinian demonstration.
In Rabat, thousands marched on Sunday in support of Palestinians under siege in Gaza, in the biggest anti-Israeli protest since the 2020 normalization of diplomatic relations.