About 10,000 people took part in a demonstration near the Israeli embassy in Paris on Monday against Israel’s deadly shelling of the Gaza city of Rafah.

The demonstration gathered a few hundred metres (yards) from the embassy in the centre of the French capital before protesters chanted “We are all Gaza children”, “Free Gaza” and other pro-Palestinian slogans.

The gathering was organised a day after Israel’s strike on Hamas targets in Rafah which set off a fire in a tent city where 45 people died, according to the Hamas-run health ministry. Israel has faced international condemnation over the attack.

“It is a massacre too many,” said FranØois Rippe of the Association France-Palestine Solidarity group that organised the rally, that the Paris police service said involved about 10,000 people.