List of pro-Palestinian protests in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Pro-Palestinian Bosnian protesters, 4 November 2023.

This is a list of pro-Palestinian protests in Bosnia and Herzegovina including demonstrations, marches, sit-ins, direct actions, and campus encampments in support of Palestinian rights.

List

Estimated attendance is either mentioned explicitly in the references or a midpoint is used, i.e., 50 when dozens are mentioned, 500 when hundreds are mentioned, and so on.

Pre-2023

Date City/town Estimated attendance Description Ref(s)
3 June 2010  Sarajevo 2,000 Demonstration and march through the city center by students against the attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla. [1]
23 September 2011  Sarajevo ? Demonstration and march through the city center in support for the Palestinian people's admission to the United Nations. [2]
14 July 2014  Sarajevo ? Demonstration in front of the United Nations building in Sarajevo and the Turkish Embassy. [3]
25 July 2014  Zenica ? Demonstration in the city center. [4]
25 July 2014  Mostar ? Demonstration in the city center. [4]
25 July 2014  Sarajevo ? Demonstration in the city center. [5]
25 July 2014  Tuzla 200 Demonstration in the city center. [6][7][8]
12 June 2015  Zenica 500 Demonstration by Bosnian football fans outside of a hotel where Israeli players were staying, with some Bosnian fans stepping on an Israeli flag and shouting "Palestine" during the march. [9]
18 December 2017  Tuzla 100 Demonstration in the city center. [10]
14 May 2021  Sarajevo ? Demonstration and march through the city center. [11][12]
29 May 2021  Tuzla ? Demonstration in the city center. [13]

2023

Date City/town Estimated attendance Description Ref(s)
13 October 2023  Sarajevo 500 Night march through the city center. [14]
14 October 2023  Mostar ? Demonstration in the city center. Protesters unfurled a large Palestinian flag on the Stari Most over the Neretva river. [15]
22 October 2023  Tuzla 5,000 Demonstration in the city center. [16][17][18]
22 October 2023  Sarajevo 5,000 Demonstration and march through the city center. Protesters chanted "Yesterday Srebrenica, today Gaza", referring to the 1995 massacre of 8000 Muslim men and boys. [19][20][21]
28 October 2023  Mostar 5,000 Demonstration and march through the city center despite the city ban on protests by Mayor Mario Kordić. [22][23][24]
29 October 2023  Zenica 5,000 Demonstration and march through the city center. [25][26]
12 November 2023  Sarajevo 5,000 Demonstration in the city center. [27][28]

2024

Date City/town Estimated attendance Description Ref(s)
7 January 2024  Sarajevo ? Demonstration and march through the city center. [29][30]
9 March 2024  Sarajevo 500 Demonstration and march through the city center. [31][32]
7 April 2024  Sarajevo 50 Demonstration and march through the city center. [33][34][35]
7 July 2024  Mostar ? Demonstration in the city center. Protesters unfurled again a large Palestinian flag on the Stari Most over the Neretva river. [36]
3 August 2024  Sarajevo ? Demonstration and march through the city center. [37]
27 October 2024  Sarajevo 500 Demonstration and march through the city center. [38][39]
29 November 2024  Sarajevo ? Art demonstration with fundraisers. Lasted until 1 December. [40]

2025

Date City/town Estimated attendance Description Ref(s)
20 April 2025  Sarajevo 500 Demonstration and march through the city center. [41][42][43]
12 June 2025  Sarajevo ? Demonstration and march through the city center. [44]
25 July 2025  Sarajevo ? Demonstration outside Gazi Husrev-beg Mosque. [45]
26 July 2025  Sarajevo 50 Demonstration and march through the city center. [46][47]
27 July 2025  Mostar ? Demonstration in the city center. [48]
4 September 2025  Sarajevo ? Demonstration by the Miljacka river. Participants launched symbolic paper boats symbolizing in solidarity with the Global Sumud Flotilla. [49]
5 September 2025  Sarajevo ? Disruption of a lecture by Jeff Barr, Vice President of Amazon Web Services. Protesters chanted messages such as "Free Palestine" and "AWS profits from genocide". [50][51]
20 September 2025  Sarajevo ? Demonstration and march through the city center organized by survivors of the Bosnian genocide. Protesters carried a large Palestine flag and placed 18000 shoes in the ground symbolizing Palestinian children killed by Israel. [52]
5 October 2025  Sarajevo 500 Demonstration and march through the city center. [53][54]
12 October 2025  Sarajevo ? Demonstration and march through the city center. [55]

See also

References

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