A rally in support of Palestine has begun in the center of Berlin.

Several dozen people, including elderly people, took part in the demonstration on Potsdamer Platz.

They are holding flags of Palestine and banners with the words "Stop the aggression against the West Bank of the Jordan River" and "Freedom for Palestine."

The demonstration is accompanied by loud music in Arabic. The police are on duty at the scene.

Earlier in the day, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov He criticized the idea of resettling Palestinians from the Gaza Strip. He said it would "set a ticking time bomb" in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. The Minister also stressed that the Defense Army Israel (the IDF) conducts daily operations that do not comply with agreements with the Palestinian radical movement Hamas

Earlier, on February 5, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a meeting with American Leader Donald Trump said that Israel I intend to destroy the Palestinian Hamas movement, return all Jewish hostages and eliminate the threat to the country from the Gaza Strip. The President The USA, in turn, called Gaza a demolition site and suggested relocate the Palestinians to Jordan, Egypt or other countries.