Swedish activist Greta Thunberg attended a climate change and pro-Palestinian rally in Milan, days after her criticism of Israel sparked a row over protests in Germany, AFP reports.

More than 1,000 people, many of them teenagers, joined a peaceful march in the northern Italian city organised by Fridays For Future, the climate change movement Thunberg helped found.

Wearing a keffiyeh Thunberg walked near the front of the procession as other protesters waved flags, held banners and danced to music.

“Palestinians have been living under suffocating oppression for decades by an apartheid regime, and during the last year with Israel’s live broadcasted genocide, the world has once again abandoned Palestine,” the 21-year-old said in a speech.