Rallies were held in major cities calling for the release of Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan, who has been imprisoned in Turkey for the past 27 years. Kerry Smith reports.

Thousands of people protested the Queensland government’s threats to ban Palestine freedom slogans over six protests in one week. Alex Bainbridge reports.

When the masses chanted “Arrest Herzog”, they were not calling for vengeance but accountability, writes Shamikh Badra.

Israel’s President Herzog has departed leaving less “social cohesion”, while politicians, justices and NSW Police have many questions to answer, writes Wendy Bacon.

A protest outside deputy prime minister and defence minister Richard Marles’ electorate office demanded he end the two-way arms trade with Israel. Tim Gooden reports.

The police violence at the protest against the visit of Israeli President Isaac Herzog reflects a deeper political failure of the system, argues Stuart Rees.

Judith Treanor writes that had authorities facilitated a peaceful march, the huge protest against Isaac Herzog on Gadigal Country/Sydney would have concluded without incident, as it did in more than 30 other places across the country that night.

Sarah Glynn reports on the situation on the ground in Syria and Turkey, following the ceasefire and integration agreement signed by the Syrian Transitional Government and the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria and Syrian Democratic Forces.

Mei-Ing Cheok reviews Kaouther Ben Hania’s award-winning docudrama, The Voice of Hind Rajab, which confronts us with the unbearable final hours of five-year-old Hind Rajab, one of the countless child victims of Israel’s war on Gaza.

On this episode of On The Streets, we discuss the huge protests against Israeli President Isaac Herzog and the police violence against protesters on Gadigal Country/Sydney.