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More than 100,000 people marched Sunday through the center of the Spanish capital to demand that Israel take an immediate truce in the Gaza Strip.

The demonstration in Madrid was the largest of those in Europe, some in support of Israel but the majority in favor of the Palestinians and against the Israeli offensive in Gaza.


The demonstrators filled downtown with posters reading "Peace," "SOS Gaza," and "Gaza" on a red-stained hands and bodies of children, represented by dolls, covered in blood.

The mother of actor Javier Bardem, Pilar, who has some experience in the tables, was one of the speakers who addressed the crowd.


"The Spanish government must do something. The Gaza Strip is now virtually a concentration camp," said the activist.

Spain, which has about 800,000 Muslims over 800 years and which was occupied by the forces of Islam, has 46.1 million inhabitants.


The organizers, including the Party and the unions Socisalista left, estimated attendance at 250,000 people. But the police refused to give figures. In addition, there were demonstrations propalestinas in other Spanish cities, including Seville and Ourense.

"It is our duty to ask Israel to take an immediate ceasefire," the president said the government José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero to the protesters in the city of Orense in Galicia.


In Brussels, bloodied children with dolls were at the head of a march that called for an end to the Israeli military campaign in the coastal strip. The demonstrators burned an Israeli flag.

Trafalgar Square in London, some 4,000 protesters called for end to Hamas rocket attack on southern Israel and supported the efforts of the Jewish state to protect its citizens.


A few thousand people demonstrated in favor of the Palestinians in Rome, Naples and Verona.

More than 3,000 people were in favor of Israel in the German cities of Frankfurt, Munich and Berlin.


In Athens, dozens of children and their parents demonstrated against the Israeli operations in Gaza.