00:00 Police in the centre of Paris used air gas and water cannon to break up a pro-Palestinian
00:05 rally, after the French government banned such demonstrations.
00:09 Interior Minister Gatilde Copyrightrolled Darman and said those defying it should be
00:15 arrested as they are susceptible to disrupt public order.
00:18 Despite the ban, thousands of protesters gathered in Paris, Lille, Bordeaux and other cities
00:24 on Thursday.
00:26 President Emmanuel Macron appealed to people not to foment internal division.
00:30 "The shield of unity will protect us from hatred and excesses," he said in a video
00:35 address.
00:36 The ban on pro-Palestinian rallies comes as European governments fear a rise in anti-Semitism
00:42 triggered by the Israel-Hamas war.
00:44 Hours later, police made 10 arrests and used water cannon to disperse a 3,000-strong rally
00:51 at Paris's Place de la Rétilde copyright public, where demonstrators chanted "Israel
00:57 murderer" and "Palestine will win" and waved Palestinian flags.
01:02 Ten people were also arrested at another rally in Lille.
01:06 Pro-Palestinian groups said the ban risked threatening freedom of expression and pledged
01:10 to continue demonstrating in support of the Palestinian people.
01:14 Charlotte Vaudier, who attended the rally, told Reuters, "We live in a country of civil
01:20 law, a country where we have the right to take a stand and to demonstrate.
01:25 It is unfair, to forbid for one side and to authorize for the other."
01:30 Meanwhile, police in Germany's capital Berlin also banned planned pro-Palestinian demonstrations,
01:36 citing the risk of anti-Semitic statements and glorification of violence.
01:41 Police said around 60 demonstrators complied with an order to leave Potsdamer Platz on
01:46 Thursday.
01:47 In his video address, President Macron urged the French people to stay united, saying "Let's
01:53 not add national divisions to international divisions."
01:56 He described Hamas as a terrorist organization that wants the death of the people of Israel.
02:02 Some 13 French citizens have been confirmed dead in Hamas' attack on Israel on Saturday.
02:08 President Macron said 17 French nationals were missing and were likely among the hostages
02:13 held by Hamas in Gaza, adding, "France is doing everything it can alongside Israel and
02:19 our partners to bring them home.
02:22 Four children are among the missing."
02:23 Israel, he said, had the right to defend itself by eliminating terrorists, but has to preserve
02:29 civilian lives because it's the duty of democracies.
02:33 The only response to terrorism is one that is strong but fair, he said.
02:38 France has a Jewish community of almost 500,000, the largest in Europe.
02:44 France's Muslim community is also among Europe's largest, an estimated five million.
02:49 Mr Darmanin told regional representatives on Thursday that Jewish schools and synagogues
02:55 should be protected by a visible police presence.
02:58 He told French radio that 100 anti-Semitic acts had been recorded since Saturday, most
03:04 involving graffiti showing swastikas, death to Jews, calls to intifadas against Israel.
03:11 Some incidents included people being arrested attempting to carry knives into schools and
03:16 synagogues, he added.
03:17 French police are already guarding the homes of leading MPs.
03:22 National Assembly President Yael Bron-Pivot and MP Meir Habib, who are both Jewish, have
03:27 been offered further protection.
03:29 It has emerged that Ms Bron-Pivot, a member of Mr Macron's Renaissance Party, has received
03:35 death threats.
03:37 She had parliament lit this week in the colours of the Israeli flag, and called a minute's
03:41 silence before an assembly session on Tuesday.
03:45 Ms Bron-Pivot also announced that Maryam Abu Dhakka, a member of the Popular Front for
03:51 the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), would be banned from attending a documentary screening
03:57 in parliament next month.
03:58 The militant organisation is recognised as a terrorist organisation by the EU.
04:03 Meir Habib represents a constituency for overseas French citizens, which includes Israel and
04:09 the Palestinian territories, and is a vocal supporter of Israel.
04:14 After the Hamas attack he said "we are witnessing the return of pogroms".
04:18 French politics has been riven by the Hamas attack and its aftermath.
04:23 While most parties have condemned Saturday's terrorist attack and expressed support for
04:27 Israel's right to respond, the initial response from Jean-Luc Amey-Tilde copyright Lencon's
04:33 far-left La France Insoumise (France In Bode) party was more equivocal.
04:39 A statement by the party referred to the Hamas attack as an armed offensive of Palestinian
04:44 forces, prompting fierce criticism from other parties, including left-wing allies such as
04:50 the Socialist and Communist parties.
04:53 Germany's Chancellor Olaf Scholz has declared zero tolerance for anti-Semitism.
04:58 He told parliament that pro-Palestinian group Samadown, which was pictured handing out sweets
05:04 in the Neukölln-Pilchrow-Lählen area of Berlin to celebrate the Hamas attack, would
05:09 be banned.
05:10 "We do not tolerate anti-Semitism," he added.
05:13 Mr Scholz told MPs in the Bundestag that Israel's security was German state policy.
05:20 German Foreign Minister Anne-Elena Baerbock is due to travel to Israel on Friday in a
05:25 gesture of solidarity.
05:26 According to German authorities, in several towns across the country including Mainz,
05:32 Braunschweig and Heilbronn, Israeli flags raised in solidarity with the country were
05:37 torn down and destroyed, sometimes in just a few minutes.
