WOMAN GLUED HAND TO A GERMAN STREET IN ARMS PROTEST CLIP
A woman stuck her hand to the ground in a Germany pavement protest against arms sales to Israel, and a 13-second clip of it went around.
The video was posted on The World Watch on May 6, 2026. The page framed it as a woman cementing her hand to the pavement in a protest related to Palestine, and it had pulled 12,000 views and 58 likes.
A commenter on the page later said they had found her own post and described the action this way: “it is a protest against an arms factory, in connection with German arms shipments to Israel.”
Another commenter said she chanted “Free, free Palestine” and “Free, free Gaza.”
Kind Joe reported that the woman wore a blue top and had blonde braids. The outlet also reported that the action targeted an arms factory linked to weapons exports to Israel, and that police used solvent and tools to free her hand.
What viewers said
Not everyone in the comments was sure what they were looking at. One commenter asked whether the clip had anything to do with Palestine and wanted to see the original source.
Another replied that the woman was chanting pro-Palestinian slogans. The commenter who found her post later acknowledged it was about the arms factory and German arms shipments to Israel.
The page racked up 32 comments, including hostile and insulting remarks.
What came after
Berlin saw more protests over the arms trade that summer, but they were separate events from the woman’s pavement protest.
On July 9, 2026, police briefly detained around 60 protesters at a Rheinmetall facility in Berlin’s Wedding district and arrested two on suspicion of assaulting officers, Roya News reported.
The group Peacefully Against Genocide organized a week of Berlin actions aimed at German support for Israel and Rheinmetall’s arms trade with Israel, The Berliner reported. Greta Thunberg joined in.
“We have the duty to end our complicity in genocide and mass killings. And that’s what we are doing today,” Thunberg said on Instagram about the July 13 protest.
On July 13, 2026, about 40 activists blocked the entrance to Rheinmetall’s Pariser Platz office in Berlin. Police removed 39 demonstrators, including Thunberg.
