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A 22-year-old German man climbed a flagpole outside the German parliament building, the Bundestag, in Berlin, removed the German flag and replaced it with a Palestinian flag in protest against the German government’s position on Israel’s ongoing war in the Gaza Strip.
The man, identified as Aaron, carried out the protest on the morning of Sunday, 8 November, alongside activists from a group called Peacefully Against Genocide. Police later detained him and two other participants.
The protesters filmed the Palestinian flag being raised and broadcast the footage live on TikTok. The incident triggered political and security reactions, prompting German authorities to launch investigations and review security measures around the parliament building.
Aaron, a physics and computer science student in Heidelberg, told Al Jazeera that his action was intended to protest against German policies towards the war in Gaza and send a direct message to lawmakers inside parliament.
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