ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS/DEMONSTRATIONS (TV, PHOTO) – REUTERS Agency
LONDON (Reuters) – Some 100,000 people joined a pro-Palestinian demonstration in central London on Saturday, marching through the British capital to demand an immediate ceasefire in Gaza following Hamas’s attack on Israel two weeks ago.
Shouting “Free Palestine”, holding banners and waving Palestinian flags, protesters toured London before gathering at Downing Street, the official residence and office of British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.
Police estimated that 100,000 people had participated in the “National March for Palestine” demonstration, organized by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign.
“As a Palestinian who would like to return home one day, as a Palestinian who has brothers and sisters in Gaza, and family, I wish we could do more, but protesting is what we can do right now,” one woman told Reuters. woman who did not want to give her name.
Many of the chants and banners contained strong anti-Israel slogans, and one protester held a banner with photos of Sunak, US President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, with the message “Wanted for war crimes “.
Police had warned before the march that anyone showing support for Hamas, banned as a terrorist organization in Britain, would face arrest, and that any hate crime incidents would not be tolerated.
The protest passed peacefully and there was no immediate news of arrests. (Reporting by Michael Holden and Yann Tessier; edited in Spanish by Javier López de Lérida)
Source: Ambito
