Police ban Athens gatherings on anniversary of Hamas leader’s death

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Athens constabulary person announced a prohibition connected nationalist gatherings successful the metropolis halfway connected Thursday, marking 1 year since the decease of Hamas person Yahya Sinwar.

The determination was made connected grounds of nationalist safety, arsenic planned demonstrations were deemed to airs a superior risk, authorities announced. 

According to the constabulary announcement, a scheduled rally by the groups Gather for Gaza and Stand with Palestine, with information by the Turkish People’s Front, was prohibited.

The prohibition applies from 5 p.m. Thursday until 6 a.m. Friday and covers Syntagma Square and the wider inner-city area, constabulary said. 

Sinwar, a elder Hamas fig and person of the radical successful Gaza, was killed by Israeli forces connected October 16 past year.