Monday 22 September 2025 From the early hours of the morning, banners and Palestinian flags begin to appear in the squares and main streets of the cities. The geography of the protest spreads from north to south, but Milan is imposed as the most incandescent point, the center of a day marked by clashes, blocks and tensions.
Milan, the central station surrounded by smoking
The procession takes shape in Milan already in the morning, when thousands of people gather in Piazza Cadorna. The slogan that dominates the banners is clear: “We will block everything, stop the genocide”. The march moves slow, compact, with Palestinian flags that wave on the crowd. When the procession reaches the central station, the most important railway node in Lombardy, the protest changes its face.
Suddenly, the large window of the main entrance is broken. The echo of broken glass resonates inside the atrium. The protesters grasp the service hydrants and turn them against the police. The police reacting by shooting tear gas: in a few minutes the station is invaded by a dense, acre smoke, which burns the eyes and takes away the breath. Tourists with suitcases in hand run away between screams and panic, climbing gates to earn the exit. Some remain trapped for minutes in the cloud, between abandoned luggage and explained sirens.
“Acab” writings appear to the inputs of the subway. Outside, in via Vittor Pisani, the guerrilla continues: stones, bottles and sticks are launched against the agents, which respond with offices and a dense launch of tear gas. The roads remain surrounded by smoke, between sirens, helicopters in low flight and the escape of passers -by.
The budget is serious: over ten people stopped, sixty wounded agents, twenty -three hospitalized in the hospital. Not far away, near the American consulate, a US flag is burned. It is the image that closes the day of Milan: the central station transformed into the battlefield, with the paralyzed tracks, the stored stains, the blocked city traffic.
The sentences come immediate. Giorgia Meloni speaks of “unworthy images from Milan”, Antonio Tajani stresses that “it is not with the violence that the Palestinian civilian population” is helping “, Ignazio La Russa denounces” hundreds of criminals “. Lorenzo Fontana defines the day “a concentrate of vandalism and hate”, while the mayor Beppe Sala declares: “Vandalism does not find justification and does not help the cause of Gaza”.
Milan remains the symbol of delirium, but mobilization crosses Italy, taking on different forms in each city.
Rome, the crowd that occupies the East ring road
While Milan burns tension, Rome sees one of the greatest processions of the day. From Piazza dei Cinquecento, in front of Termini, an event that grows metro after metro starts. The banners multiply, the drums mark the pace. In a short time the presences exceed fifty thousand units.
The procession reaches Porta Maggiore, but along the route the crowd pours on the east ring road, invading the roadway. The cars are trapped, horn and sirens mix with the slogans shouted in chorus. At La Sapienza University, a hundred students burst into the faculty of letters. “Outside Zionism from the University”, they scream, announcing the occupation. The atrium is filled with banners, while in the classrooms there are regularly degree theses regularly: the contrast between the academic normality and the irruption of the protest becomes a symbolic image.
Naples, photos burned and employed tracks
In Naples the mobilization starts from Piazza Mancini. Thousands of students move in the procession to Piazza Municipio. In the middle of the march, the protest lights up: the photos of Giorgia Meloni and Benjamin Netanyahu are burned between choirs and applause.
At the central station a group occupies the tracks. The trains slow down, stop, the scoreboards report chain delays. Travelers remain blocked on the tracks, while the station fills with smoke of smoke bombs and shouted choirs.
Turin, ten thousand in procession and invaded tracks
In Turin about ten thousand people parade in the city center. The flags color the main streets, the compact crowd moves between slogans and drums. A part of the procession detaches and reaches the tracks between Porta Nuova and Lingotto. The convoys are stopped, the circulation suspended.
The metal noise of blocked trains mixes with the screams of the protesters. The station becomes the heart of the Piedmontese protest, while the city remains congested by traffic and blocks.
Venice, the port of Marghera under siege
In Marghera, in Veneto, the procession starts from Piazzale Giovannacci. At least fifteen thousand people march to the commercial port. The garrison lasts three hours, with songs, drums and flags. Then the attempt to advance towards the infrastructure.
The police open the hydrants. The water affects the demonstrators, who respond by launching bottles. The tension grows, then the crowd retains, shouting “fascists”. Slowly the garrison melts, while the entrance of the port remains blocked and the commercial traffic slows down.
Trieste, stones and reversed bins
In Trieste the procession moves from the IV iv of the Molo VII. A second column starts from Campi Elisi and immediately stands out for the violence: stones launched against the police, bins dragged in the middle of the road and overturned to block the roadway.
The police respond with tear gas. The clouds of smoke invade the nearby streets, while the two sections of the procession at the end reappear in Piazza della Libertà.
Genoa, three processions and storage ports
In Genoa, under a pouring rain, hundreds of demonstrators head towards the gates of via Albertazzi and San Benigno. Two processions start from via Balbi and Piazza Montano. A third, formed by antagonists and anti -fascists, descends from Oregina. Everyone converges on the ports.
The slogans resonate: “We block everything, with Palestine, with Flotilla and against Zionism”. The flags mix in the rain, while the gates remain blocked and trucks in the queue for kilometers.
Bologna, university and highway still
In Bologna in the morning he started with the blocks to the rectorate entrances. Faculty in front of the faculties of jurisprudence and mathematics, students and demonstrators in garrison. In the afternoon the protest moves to the ring road and the A14.
Findeni color the asphalt, flags wave in the middle of the cars stopped. Eight demonstrators are stopped. After the reopening, mileage queues envelop the city.
Florence, the flag on the wheel of time
In Florence the procession gathers at the Rotonda of Calenzano, at the exit of the A1. Thousands of people block access to the toll booth. A large Palestinian flag is hoisted on the “wheel of time”, the monumental sculpture of Dani Karavan.
The roundabout becomes a symbol of the Florentine protest. The choirs mark “free Palestine”, while the traffic remains paralyzed.
Pisa, the invaded highway
In Pisa the demonstrators occupy the Florence-Pisa-Livorno highway. The lane towards the sea is closed, cars and trucks stop in the queue for kilometers. In the direction of Florence, traffic flows slowly, slowed down by the curiosity of motorists.
Livorno, the Valessini gate under block
In Livorno the protest focuses on the customs gate Valessini. Tir and car files accumulate while the protesters block the entrance and the exit. The port remains firm for hours, with delays in loading and unloading operations.
Perugia and Terni, the Umbrian principals
In Umbria the principals are held in Perugia and Terni. In the capital, the demonstrators gather in Piazza Vittorio Veneto, in front of the railway station. Young people and adults shake flags from Palestine and the USB union. The slogans repeat: “Palestine free”.
Bari, ten thousand in procession
In Bari at least ten thousand people participate in the procession of the basic unions. In front of the Israeli consulate the slogans become harder: “Assassins”. The march continues for the city center and ends after crossing the Sant’Antonio underpass.
Palermo, twenty thousand in the square
In Palermo twenty thousand people parade in the procession. The opening banner reads: “Stop the genocide in Gaza, defend the flotilla, Stop war economy, lower the weapons raised the wages”. In the square students, unions and associations.
Vatican, secular employees in procession
The secular employees of the Vatican also participate in the mobilization. Present at the march of the “priests against genocide” and waking in Santa Maria in Trastevere. Recall the words of Pope Francis: “There is no future based on violence, for forced exile, on revenge. Peoples need peace”.
Milan symbol of a day that crossed Italy
The guerrilla exploded at the central station remains the most incisive photography of this September 22nd. Shattered windows, tear me in the atrium, tourists on the run: images that have crossed the country together with those of the processions of Rome, Naples, Turin, Venice, Trieste, Genoa, Bologna, Florence, Pisa, Livorno, Perugia, Terni, Bari, Palermo and even the Vatican. An Italy marked by blocks, slogans and smoke, which in a few hours saw its cities transform into protest theaters. Milan, most of all, has concentrated the tension, becoming the symbol of a mobilization that has left its mark on the national news.
