'We Support Hamas' sign shows up as about 200,000 march in Amsterdam against the Dutch government's Israel policy

Some 200,000 people marched in Amsterdam on Sunday to demand the Dutch government take tougher action against Israel, and at least one sign on the sidelines read "We Support Hamas," The Jerusalem Post reports, citing Dutch public broadcaster NOS.

It was the fourth "red line" protest, in which marchers dress in red to form a line against what they call Israeli war crimes. Thirteen organizations backed it, including Oxfam Novib, Amnesty International and Save the Children, according to NL Times.

NOS said the pro-Hamas message was not shared by the organizers or most of the crowd, and its reporters heard participants say they would never support Hamas. But Rolien Sasse, director of Pax, one of the organizing groups, admitted before the march that organizers knew pro-Hamas activists might join. "I don't know, and we never have that completely under control," she told local broadcaster AT5. "But we absolutely do not want that."

AT5 noted that a pro-Palestinian demonstration in Amsterdam on Oct. 7, 2023, the day of the Hamas massacre in Israel, also featured pro-Hamas banners and slogans.