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Tens of thou­sands of demon­stra­tors marched through the streets of Rome on Sat­ur­day against the war in Gaza in a protest called by Italy’s main op­po­si­tion par­ties, who ac­cuse the right-wing gov­ern­ment of be­ing too silent.

Pro­test­ers held a ban­ner read­ing “Stop the mas­sacre, stop com­plic­i­ty!” at the start of the march, which moved peace­ful­ly through the cen­ter of Rome amid a mas­sive dis­play of rain­bow, Pales­tin­ian and po­lit­i­cal par­ty flags.

The protest at­tract­ed a di­verse crowd from across the coun­try, in­clud­ing many fam­i­lies with chil­dren. Ac­cord­ing to or­ga­niz­ers, up to 300,000 peo­ple par­tic­i­pat­ed in the ral­ly or­ga­nized by the left­ist op­po­si­tion to ask the gov­ern­ment for a clear po­si­tion on the con­flict in Gaza.