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

• Gaza war protests
• Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions
• Lists of pro-Palestinian protests

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