Demonstrators Protest in Front of the Israeli Embassy in Greece, Police Violently Attack Crowd
Athens, Greece — Around 5,000 demonstrators marched through Athens’ city center to the Israeli Embassy in solidarity with the Palestinian people on Oct. 7, 2025. Dozens of riot police with helmets and gas masks stood in front of several large police busses that formed a barricade on the street, blocking the demonstrators’ access to the embassy.
Amid waving Palestinian flags and fireworks being shot off towards the Israeli Embassy, some of the chants were “viva Palestina,” “free Gaza,” “free Palestine,” “we are all Palestinian,” “fuck you Israel,” and “death to the IDF.”
Police attacked the crowd, using flashbang grenades, pepper spray, and tear gas as the gathering was nearing its end and the various blocs of demonstrators had already begun to disperse. The pretext for the attack was two Molotov cocktails thrown from the anarchist bloc. The police carried out dozens of indiscriminate arrests and caused serious injuries to demonstrators. According to eyewitnesses, protesters’ limbs were broken and several were injured in the head.
After the initial beatings and detainments, jail support demonstrations were held. Police then continued with multiple attacks against members of the crowd, including journalists and lawyers, who were demanding better treatment of the detainees.
The Hellenic Police repeatedly refused to allow medical assistance to detainees, both from the ambulance staff that arrived on site and from volunteer medics present at the scene.
The demonstration was held on Oct. 7, two years to the day that Israel started carrying out its historically deadly and destructive genocidal campaign on Gaza in reprisal to Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, when Palestinian resistance fighters, led by Hamas, broke through the besieged walls of the Gaza Strip and attacked Israel, killing around 1,139 people and taking 250 captive.
The official death toll as of early October 2025 in Gaza is over 66,300 Palestinians killed by Israel since October 2023. The first independent survey of deaths in Gaza released in late June finds over 84,000 have been killed as of January 2025 and The Lancet analysis reported a death toll of at least 186,000 killed by Israel from October 2023 to July 2024, or 41% above official numbers. According to Israeli military intelligence, at least 83% of the Palestinian victims are civilians.
The United Nations said on October 1 that an average of 100 Palestinians are killed by Israel per day. A new ceasefire is currently underway, potentially providing some respite for Palestinians in Gaza.
Related coverage of pro-Palestine protests in Greece:
Amidst Tourist Season, a Pro-Palestinian Initiative Holds Daily Protests Outside the Greek Parliament – July 29, 2025
Greek Dockworkers and Solidarity Activists Block Military Cargo Bound for Israel – July 22, 2025
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