An Abolish ICE protest took place in Portland on the night of the 18th, with clashes occurring between demonstrators and DHS federal agents, all across Portland. The attendance count ranges from hundreds to thousands depending on the source. Multiple protesters were arrested, and dozens injured by pepper spray, tear gas, and rubber bullets used by the police.
Hundreds of Palestinians in Umm al-Fahm in the northern West Bank rioted with Molotov cocktails, petrol bombs, and other explosives after the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) shot and killed 22-year-old Muhammad Nasser Agbaria while he was parking his car in an anti-violence protest. The IDF deployed water cannons against the protesters, making 4 arrests.
Hundreds of protesters in Thessaloniki marched in solidarity with Dimitris Koufontinas, a former member of the 17 November urban guerilla in Greece. He entered a hunger strike on the 8th of January to demand his transfer to the Korydallos prison, where he would once again be able to see his family as visitors.
Dozens of people gathered in Santiago to coordinate a protest for the release of political prisoners of the 18th of October Uprising, when a fascist identifying with the Popular Socialist Vanguard shot rubber bullets at the demonstrators along the Ahumada, injuring several. When the crowd began to attack him, police stepped in to defend the fascist, stopping the crowd from getting to him. The march then proceeded to the Forest Park in the center of the city and was met with extreme violence by the Carabineros who immediately deployed armored vehicles.
Dozens of youth in Lebanon cut off the Jiyeh highway, Al Masnaa-Chtoura Road, and Dahr Al Baidar Road at the Jdita Junction, in solidarity with protesters in Tripoli demanding an increase in employment opportunities and living conditions.
