Pro-Palestine protestors in Trafalgar Square call for Israel to 'stop bombing Gaza'. Protestors clashed with police, throwing bottles and flares at police as they marched to demand justice for those in Gaza.
This is the moment a police officer steps into confiscate an Israeli flag from pro-Palestine supporters who had stamped on it and attempted to burn it as demonstrations across the UK turn hostile.
In separate footage, protesters can be seen arguing with each other about whether or not to burn the Israel flag, with one shouting: 'Don't do it, it'll make us look bad.' The officer was surrounded by hostile activists next to the barricades in Kensington as tempers flared Ring of steel: Met Police officers lined up along barricades as they blocked protesters accessing the Israel Embassy
The Met said the arrests related to suspected assaults on emergency workers, as well as allegedly setting off fireworks in public places and suspected public order offences. In London, protesters walked from BBC New Broadcasting House - which had been doused in fake blood - to the gates of Downing Street where activists chanted: 'Rishi Sunak, shame on you! Suella Braverman, shame on you!' as dozens of officers watched on.
BRISTOL: Palestine supporters climb the bandstand in Castle Park, Bristol and raise the Palestinian flag before marching through the city READ MORE - Hamas accuses Israel of bombing convoy of fleeing Palestinians leaving 70 dead - including children Advertisement The Met Police issued a statement during the march saying 'action will be taken' after some protesters lit flares and fireworks, saying it is 'clearly a danger' to others.
Yesterday, the officer in charge policing in London this weekend said anyone waving a flag of any proscribed terror organisation would be arrested. LONDON: The protest in London hit its worst point at Trafalgar Square where officers were seen shouting at aggressive protestersLONDON: Police officers were scuffling with protesters as activists threw objects at them on a heated dayLONDON: The Socialist Worker's Party let off flares as they march through the capital in support of PalestineLONDON: A protester with a flare in Trafalgar Square during a March for Palestine in the...
A group of Jewish people from the fringe Neturei Karta sect join the pro-Palestine march through central London on Saturday 'If you believe in international law, if you believe in human rights, then you must condemn what is happening now in Gaza by the Israeli army.' Orly Goldschmidt, spokeswoman for the Israeli Embassy to the UK, earlier insisted that Israel was not targeting civilians, but admitted that innocent people would be casualties of the conflict with Hamas in Gaza.
Ahead of the anticipated ground invasion of Gaza, which has seen some 400,000 civilians displaced, he urged onlookers to 'remember how this started - all of this is Hamas made', he said. Demonstrators protest in solidarity with Palestinians, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group HamasThe Metropolitan Police Service will deploy more than 1,000 officers to police the demonstration , in which people will be marching in solidarity with Palestinians amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict
Other signs on display included slogans such as 'free us from the shackles of the Zionist state', 'wake up and smell the Zionist propaganda' and 'stop the Zionist massacres and persecution in Gaza'. Protesters in Liverpool also marched on BBC offices amid a row over the fact that the broadcaster refuses to call Hamas a terrorist organisation.
It comes as the Met Police deployed 300 officers specifically to tackle safety fears for London's Jewish population, amid a huge spike in reported hate crimes since the beginning of the conflict last Saturday. Police officers have powers to make protesters remove items that obscure their identity in these areas of London
'Anyone with a flag in support of Hamas or any other proscribed terrorist organisation will be arrested.The Met added that simply flying the Palestinian flag or supporting the Palestinian people does not constitute a criminal offence, but said 'some situations' in which a flag or banner could be seen as intimidation or intending to cause alarm and distress, in which case it may be a criminal offence.
'Any person participating in or associated with the Palestine Solidarity Campaign protest, must not deviate from this route, or they could be subjected to arrest.' She said: 'It is not about antisemitism, it's about human beings,' she said, before quipping that she and her friend Annie Rose, 78, were 'old white ladies for Palestine'.
Three Britons are confirmed to have died during last weekend's assault on Israel, but reports have suggested at least 17 could be among the casualties. An injured girl is carried away from rubble after an Israeli airstrike hit Khan Yuris in southern Gaza A Section 12 will be in force from midday covering the demonstration route, which starts at Portland Place and finishes in Whitehall.
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