Hawzah News Agency- Danish police have clashed with activists and arrested 20 of them for protesting against the transfer of weapons to the Israeli regime which is engaged in the genocide and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians for months.

The police used batons and tear gas to disperse the crowd that assembled in front of the maritime transport company Maersk in Copenhagen on Monday.

Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg was among the protesters who chanted slogans and held banners reading “Maersk profiting from genocide in Gaza” and “Attack on one is attack on all.”

Thunberg has attended several pro-Palestine protests since Israel launched its genocidal war on the besieged Gaza Strip.

We are here to demand that Maersk must stop all the transportation of arms and weapon components to Israel, she said in a video message posted on social media, adding that they must terminate all contract and investment that support the genocide and occupation of Palestine.

Maersk acknowledged the cargo contains military-related equipment but told AFP that “the shipment is in line with U.S.-Israeli security cooperation program.”

European lawmaker labels Israel a ‘rogue state’

Lynn Boylan, an Irish Sinn Fein politician and a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from the Dublin constituency called Israel ‘rogue’ after the regime denied her entry to the occupied Palestinian territories.

Israel's outrageous behavior is the result of the international community's failure to hold it accountable, Boylan said in a statement on Monday, adding that Israel is a rogue state and this insolence is a sign of the level of its sheer disregard for international law.

Source: IRNA