In pictures: Israel-Gaza conflict sparks pro-Palestinian protests around world

The growing death toll from Israel's offensive against the militant group Hamas has set off pro-Palestinian protests around the world.

Al-Monitor Staff
Al-Monitor Staff
May 14, 2021
Riot police officers stand in front of demonstrators during a protest in support of Palestine on Jaarbeursplein in Utrecht, on May 14, 2021.
Riot police officers stand in front of demonstrators during a protest in support of Palestine on Jaarbeursplein in Utrecht, on May 14, 2021. — REMKO DE WAAL/ANP/AFP via Getty Images

As Israel continues its air campaign against militants in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip, protests expressing solidarity with the Palestinians living in the impoverished enclave have erupted in London, Istanbul, Los Angeles and other major cities around the world. 

The casualties have mounted as the conflict inches closer to full-blown war between Israel and the Palestinian militants. More than 100 people have died in Israel's airstrikes and the militants' rocket fire in less than a week, many of them children.

People hold up signs and wave Palestinian flags during a protest against Israel and in support of Palestinians outside the Israeli Consulate in Los Angeles, California, on May 11, 2021. - The UN Security Council will hold an urgent meeting on Wednesday over the deadly unrest playing out between Israel and the Palestinians, its second such session in three days, diplomatic sources said on May 11. (Photo by RINGO CHIU / AFP) (Photo by RINGO CHIU/AFP via Getty Images)

In Los Angeles, protesters waved Palestinian flags outside the Israeli Consulate on May 11. (Photo by Ringo Chiu/AFP via Getty Images) 

A man holds up a sign reading in English "we can not breathe since 1948" (the date of the creation of the State of Israel) during a protest to express solidarity with the Palestinian people near the Israeli embassy in Jordan's capital Amman on May 9, 2021.

In Jordan's capital Amman, a man holds up a sign during a May 9 demonstration reading in English "We can not breathe since 1948," the date of the creation of the State of Israel. (Photo by Khalil Mazraawi/AFP via Getty Images)

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