Several thousand people gathered in the Place de la République in Paris early Thursday to support the Palestinians, despite an administrative court ban on demonstrations, before dispersing under water cannons and tear gas, an AFP journalist found.

Other rallies, also banned, took place in central Rennes with around fifty demonstrators, according to an AFP journalist, and in Lille, where ten people were arrested for “rebellion” and “refusal to disperse”, according to the prefecture. .

In Toulouse, despite the ban and cancellation by organizers of a pro-Palestinian demonstration, about a hundred people gathered before being dispersed by mobile gendarmes who fired tear gas, an AFP photographer reported.

According to the Prefecture of Police, 24 fines were issued in Paris and 10 of the 3,000 people present were arrested.

Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin ordered a systematic ban on “pro-Palestinian demonstrations because they could create public order problems” in a cable sent to prefects on Thursday after the attack by Palestinians. The Islamist movement Hamas in Israel on Saturday.

The ministry told AFP that the “organizers” of these demonstrations and “scandals” would be arrested.

In Paris, demonstrators lined the Place de la République chanting “Palestine vaincra” and “Israel assassin, Macron accomplice” and carrying Palestinian flags.

The monument of the Republic in the center of the square was painted with large letters “Free Palestine”.