Students were the first to gather in Madrid’s central Puerta del Sol, followed shortly after by workers called by the country’s main unions, the Workers’ Commissions (CCOO and UGT).

Right in front of the headquarters of the Community of Madrid, whose president, Isabel Diaz Ayuso, an outspoken defender of Benjamin Netanyahu’s Israeli regime, mocked the crews of the ships that made up the Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF), intercepted by Tel Aviv’s navy.

Second Vice President and Minister of Labor, Yolanda Diaz, described Ayuso’s statements against the flotilla heading to Gaza as “a real disgrace.” Diaz said, in an interview with TVE, that she demanded that the leader of the People’s Party (PP), Alberto Nunez Feijoo, “get some sense into his life” within his party after the “vaudeville” and “embarrassment” of the Madrid regional leader’s stance.

In the Madrid Assembly, the leader and her collaborators mock on the flotilla describing it “floating faculty,” among other epithets, in addition to criticizing its crew.

This Thursday, the Workers’ Commissions and the General Union of Workers (UGT) called for a mobilization against Israel’s assault on the Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF).

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