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Thousands of pro-Palestine supporters march through London calling for ceasefire

2024-02-04 00:00:00.0 独立报-英国新闻原网页

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More than 10,000 pro-Palestine supporters have marched in central London calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, in the first such demonstration since the UN’s top court ordered Israel to ensure it does not commit acts of genocide.

Scotland Yard estimated that around 10,000 demonstrators marched through the capital’s West End of London, with the crowd swelling to double that size for the speeches in Whitehall.

Hundreds of officers from the Metropolitan Police were on duty with additional dispersal powers as the march started at Portland Place and headed to Whitehall.

Pro-Palestinian protesters carry placards during a 'National March for Palestine' demonstration in central London

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Pro-Palestinian protesters carry placards during a 'National March for Palestine' demonstration in central London

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The Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) said it was the “eighth national march held for the Palestinian people”, following Hamas’s brutal massacre on 7 October in which 1,200 people were killed and more than 240 kidnapped before Israel retaliated with months of attacks on the Gaza Strip, killing and wounding thousands.

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It comes as the UK becomes increasingly embroiled in rising tensions in the Middle East, with Britain and the United States striking Houthi targets in Yemen in response to attacks on shipping in the Red Sea.

Iraq warned the region was “on the brink of the abyss” on Saturday after the US struck 85 targets at seven facilities across Syria and Iraq in retaliation for a drone attack last week which killed three American troops and injured dozens more in northeastern Jordan.

Demonstrators in London carried banners on Saturday which read “end the killing”, “free the children” and “freedom to Palestine”, accompanied by harrowing images of the bloodshed since the conflicted erupted.

Officers were on the look out for offensive placards and banners, with staff also monitoring the protest by CCTV to sport other offences or to find suspects, a spokesperson said.

Thousands gathered to call for a ceasefire in the conflict between Israel and Hamas

(Belinda Jiao/PA Wire)

PSC director Ben Jamal said: “We are marching again because we know we are on the right side of history and we will stand always with the oppressed and never with the oppressor.”

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