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In view of the violence in the Middle East, hundreds of people demonstrated in Berlin.
Participants waved Palestinian flags on Friday afternoon and chanted “Freedom for Palestine” and “Stop the murder, stop the war”.
"There have already been calls for violence that Tel Aviv should be attacked," reports WELT reporter Lea Freist.
The train should lead from Kottbusser Tor over Sonnenallee to Neukölln town hall.
According to the police, around 200 participants initially took part in the protest, which an individual had registered.
The police accompanied the demonstration with more than 200 emergency services, as a spokeswoman said.
In addition to the situation in the Middle East, the reason for the protest was Nakba Day (German: Catastrophe), which commemorates the flight and expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from what will later become Israel.
The Israeli declaration of independence took place on May 14, 1948;
the Palestinians celebrate Nakba Day on May 15th every year.
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Various pro-Palestinian groups want to take to the streets in Berlin on Saturday too.
In the escalating conflict between Israelis and Palestinians, Interior Senator Andreas Geisel (SPD) has assured the Jewish community in the capital of "the best possible protection".
Everything is done to protect Israeli and Jewish, but also Muslim and Palestinian institutions.
In the past few days there have been repeated protests with anti-Semitic slogans in the vicinity of synagogues and attacks against Israel.
The Central Council of Jews published recordings from Gelsenkirchen, where a large group of people shouted “Shit Jews” in front of the synagogue there.
Israel flags were lit in several cities.
The city of Frankfurt banned a pro-Palestinian rally in downtown Frankfurt for Saturday at short notice. Reason are fears about public safety, said security department head Markus Frank of the news agency dpa on Friday. "Bild" had previously reported on it. In view of the heated situation and a call for a demonstration showing armed terrorists, Frank said he had no choice but to ban the event. The call for the rally called for a “free Palestine from the river to the sea”. Frank feared a "hate demonstration".