"This has been an issue which has long stimulated passions and we are now all seeing on social media and in our communities, how divisive and polarising the current situation has become," British foreign minister James Cleverly said at a peace summit in Cairo.
(Reporting by Michael Holden and Yann Tessier; Editing by Ros Russell and Daniel Wallis)
About 100,000 protesters join pro-Palestinian march through London
LONDON (Reuters) -About 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 the Hamas attack on Israel two weeks ago.
Chanting "Free Palestine", holding banners and waving Palestinian flags, the protesters moved through London before massing at Downing Street, the official residence and office of British .
Police estimated 100,000 people had taken part in the "National March for Palestine" demonstration, organised by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign.
"As a Palestinian who'd like to return home one day, as a Palestinian who has brothers and sisters in Gaza, and family, I wish we can do more but protest is what we can do at the minute," one woman, who declined to give her name, told Reuters.
Many of the chants and banners contained strong anti-Israeli slogans, and one protester held a banner with pictures of Sunak, U.S. President Joe Biden, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with the message "Wanted For War crimes".
Police had cautioned before the march that anyone showing support for Hamas, banned as a terrorist organisation in Britain, would face arrest, and any incident of hate crime would not be tolerated.
The protest was mostly peaceful, and police said they had made 10 arrests. . .
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Some 100,000 pro-Palestinian protesters in London demand end to Israeli strikes
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Tens of thousands of pro-Palestinian demonstrators marched in London and other cities on Saturday to demand Israel stop its offensive into Gaza, as the Israel-Hamas war entered its third week following the terror group’s October 7 onslaught on southern Israel, and its ripples spread around the globe.
On the day when the first aid trucks entered Gaza, where more than a million people have left their homes because of the conflict, protesters gathered in the rain at Marble Arch near London’s Hyde Park before marching to the government district, Whitehall.
Police estimated the crowd winding its way through central London at “up to 100,000.”
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