PAX, Amnesty International and a dozen more human rights organisations say more than 100,000 people turned out in The Hague on Sunday, calling for a change in Dutch government policy towards Israel.

The groups want the government of Dick Schoof to cut military and economic ties with Israel so long as the conflict in Gaza continues.

Marchers wore red clothing to draw a “red line” that they say the Dutch government has failed to set against the war.

The group walked from the Malieveld to the Peace Palace and returned through the city center, shutting down traffic and public transit in the city.

Last week, Dutch foreign affairs minister Caspar Veldkamp accused Israel of breaching human rights laws with its plan to permanently occupy the Gaza region.

Veldkamp wrote in a letter to the European Union’s foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, that Israel’s blockade of Gaza breached the terms of its free trade agreement with the EU.

Geert Wilders, leader of the far-right PVV, the largest party in the four-way coalition government, criticised Veldkamp’s response to the attack on the aid convoy as “premature and clumsy”, while Veldkamp condemned Wilders’ visit to an illegal Israeli settlement on the West Bank in December as “an affront to cabinet policy”.

Support for Israel’s attacks on Gaza is falling in the Netherlands, with two-thirds of people now describing the most recent bombing as “out of all proportion” and 77% condemning the aid blockade, according to the latest RTL opinion poll.