Paris was bur🌸ning Saturday — with hatred of Israel.
Thousands of pro-Palestinian protesters hurl✨ed rocks, burned an Israeli flag and set at least one car on fire in the northern part of the city in a raucous demonstration against violence in the Gaza Strip.
Frencꦛh police tried to disperse the protesters with tear🎉gas canisters and stun grenades.
The protest was in defiance of a ban on rallies that had been imposed after demonstrators clashed with pꦚolice while marching on two Paris synagogues last weekend.
Rallies were also held in more than a dozen other French cities, from Lille ൲in the north to Marseille in the south.
Thousands more demonstrated against Israel in London Saturday, joining the Parisians in calling f🃏or an end to Israeli military action.
In Paris, a polꦛice spokesman sa🐬id 38 demonstrators had been arrested by early evening and clashes were dying down.
French President François Hollande said he understood ci♋tizens’ emotional responses to the conflict, but would not allow violence to spill🤪 over into France.
The country has the largest population of both Muslims൩ and Jews of any European nation.
Saturday mar💫ked the Israeli military’s second day of its ground operation in Gaza, pounding Palestinian sites with airstrikes and demolishing more than a dozen tunnels it said could be used by militants to carry out attacks.
Palestinian commandos disguised as Israeli troops still managed to infiltrate a tunnel, killing two Israeli soldiers and ღinjuring several others. Hamas said 12 of its own fighters joined the fight and that at least one of them was killed.
Militants jumped out of tunnels and fired at soldiers in two other clashes. Two of the♊ gun🤪men were killed. The Israeli army said tranquilizer guns and cuffs were found in one clash, indicating the gunmen “intended to abduct Israelis.”
Meanwhile, an Israeli Bedouin was killed when a Hamas r𒈔ocket hit his encampment ꧂in southern Israel.
Four of his fa🗹mily members, including two children, were wounded.
Israel’s chief of staff, Lt.🐈 Gen. Benny Gantz, warned of more “moments of hardship,” suggesting Israeli deaths could mount.
A✃s diplomats struggle to broker a cease-fire, international advocates are condemning the number of children killed in the conflict.
Two ཧ6-year-olds and a toddleﷺr died in airstrikes and shellings Saturday, Palestinians reported.