South Africans in Middelburg took to the streets in protest against the increased tariffs by the Steve Tshwete Local Municipality, clashing with riot police, which resulted in the torching of a bus and a truck at the scene of the demonstration.
Around 1000 protesters returned to the streets of Thessaloniki for a 3rd consecutive day in solidarity with the Koufontinas hunger strike, demanding the state acquiescence to his request to be returned to the Korydallos prison in Athens.
Around 80 protesters marched in Xanthi in solidarity with Dimitris Koufontinas, a former member of the 17 November left-wing urban guerilla who entered a hunger strike on the 8th of January to demand his return to the Korydallos prison in Athens, where he would once again be able to see his family and other visitors.
Hundreds of protesters in many sites across Lebanon protested in opposition to government repression against anti-corruption activists as well as incompetence in handling hyperinflation and soaring gas prices.
Protesters took to the streets in Israel for the 17th week in a row against the corruption and human rights abuses committed by Netanyahu, with thousands of protesters crowding the streets of West Jerusalem. Many see Netanyahu as the same authoritarian strongman as Donald Trump in the US, and are frightened by the prospects of him acting as such.
