Large crowds assembled in central Rome for the fourth straight day of protests in Italy since Israel intercepted an international flotilla trying to deliver aid to Gaza, and detained its activists.

People holding banners and Palestinian flags, chanting "Free Palestine" and other slogans, filed past the Colosseum, taking part in a march that organisers hoped would attract at least one million people.

"I'm here with a lot of other friends because I think it is important for us all to mobilise individually," Francesco Galtieri, a 65-year-old musician from Rome, said.

"If we don't all mobilise, then nothing will change."

Since Israel started blocking the flotilla late on Wednesday, protests have sprung up across Europe and in other parts of the world, but in Italy they have been a daily oc

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