The Democratic National Convention (DNC) kicks off next week, with anti-genocide groups set to hold demonstrations demanding that the U.S. stop proving weapons and funding for the war in Gaza.

The DNC will be hosted in Chicago, where Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz are expected to officially be nominated for the presidency and where Democrats will lay out the party’s platform. Advocates expect tens of thousands to join the demonstrations with the Coalition to March on the DNC.

Several social advocacy and anti-war groups have been planning a march for months, calling on politicians to end U.S. aid to Israel and stop “Democratic Party-supported Israeli genocide.” But the coalition has reported difficulties in securing permits to use Park 578 and Union Park for its rallies in Chicago.

City officials on Wednesday confirmed that groups can gather publicly, but they prohibited the use of stages, tents or sound equipment during demonstrations — rules not required for other events held in the same venues, organizers said. The coalition also said the Chicago Department of Transportation rejected permits for groups like the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, AntiWar Committee Chicago and Students for a Democratic Society to march this summer.

“Many of these restrictions are an unvarnished attempt to silence dissenting voices, in violation of the right to free speech,” the coalition said in a release. The organizations filed an emergency injunction against the city’s requirements.

“Again, the City of Chicago has blindsided us and restricted our rights,” said Hatem Abudayyeh, a spokesperson for the coalition and national chair of the U.S. Palestinian Community Network. “Someone doesn’t want us to talk about Palestine, about Genocide Joe and Killer Kamala’s support of genocide and this is an egregious violation of our rights.”

The march will start Monday at noon in Union Park and will end with a demonstration in the same area Thursday at 5 p.m.

Protestors are also demanding more funding for social programs, protection for queer people and reproductive rights, immigration reforms and more police oversight.

The coalition and other pro-Palestinian groups organized an emergency demonstration to “tell Trump he’s not welcome in Chicago” in late July. Members previously protested the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to Congress.

The DNC protests come as the death toll in Gaza hits 40,000 — most of which are women and children, according to the region’s health ministry. Experts say the death toll is underestimated.

The conflict has displaced more than 85 percent of the population and injured more than 90,000 people since Oct. 7.

“President Biden’s response to the Israeli government’s daily war crimes has been to send more bombs to drop on Palestinians in Gaza,” the Council on American-Islamic Relations Research and Advocacy Director Corey Saylor said in a statement. “If President Biden does not radically change course, his ultimate legacy will be arming a genocide. How many more Palestinians have to die before President Biden takes action?”