Hundreds of pro-Palestinian Greeks staged a fresh protest Tuesday, rallying at Crete’s Agios Nicholaos Port against the arrival of the Israeli cruise ship Crown Iris — the third such demonstration on a Greek island in a week as calls to end Israel's genocide in Gaza grow louder.
Despite a heavy police presence at the port, protestors, carrying Palestinian flags and banners hailing Palestinian resistance and condemning Israel’s genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, chanted "Freedom to Palestine," "Victory to Intifada” and "Stop genocide in Gaza,” reported the Prin newspaper.
The newspaper noted that police used tear gas to disperse protestors, similar to methods used against demonstrators who rallied in Rhodes on Monday to protest the ship.
The rally in Agios Nicholaos on Tuesday was organized by the Solidarity Initiative for the Palestinian People, which emphasized local communities cannot remain silent in the face of war crimes and the "normalization of genocide" in Gaza.
"The ship symbolizes the continuation of the siege of the Palestinian people and its presence in Greek ports cannot be considered touristic activity,” it said.
