Activist groups in several UK cities, including London, Manchester and Edinburgh, and thousands of people in Paris. He marched this Saturday to demand that Israel end the attacks against Gaza.
Numerous videos published on social networks showed activists in different parts of the United Kingdom waving Palestinian flags and calling for “an immediate ceasefire,” according to EFE.
In Piccadilly Circus, in central London, three people were arrested after their involvement in protest acts, one of them for displaying a banner that could incite hatredaccording to the Metropolitan Police.
Scotland Yard also added that the other two detainees were arrested for committing public order offenses and attacking an officer.
Since the conflict began last month, Protests have been called every Saturday. in the British capital and other cities in the country.
The Stop the War Coalition, one of the organizers of the demonstrations, said that several local protests organized in neighborhoods are expected throughout this weekend, rather than one large-scale march.
In London, thousands of activists gathered in Trafalgar Square. to start a march led by the Palestinian Solidarity campaign and thousands of other citizens gathered in Manchester, according to local press.
There were also pro-Palestinian protests in other locations including Belfast, Edinburgh, Cardiff, Liverpool and Leeds, with protesters demanding an immediate ceasefire.
Thousands of people also marched through the streets of Paris to They demand the end of the blockade and the Israeli offensive against the Gaza Stripin addition to asking the French executive for a stronger position in favor of an immediate ceasefire.
The demonstration, called by a group supporting peace between Israel and Palestine formed, among others, by NGOs, union groups and some left-wing parties such as the French Socialist Party (PS) or La Francia Insumisa (LFI), began from Praça da República towards Praça da Nação in the early afternoon.
Despite the rain that sometimes fell on the capital, thousands of people attended the call wearing Palestinian flags and scarvesas well as posters and banners with messages of support for peace.
French authorities estimated the number of participants at 19,000, but organizing organizations are targeting 60,000 people.
Although the call of the march was in favor of peace and a ceasefire, it was also heard Cries against Israel and criticism of the position of the executive of French President Emmanuel Macron in the face of the crisis unleashed as a result of the attacks.
This Saturday’s demonstration, which took place calmly, was authorized despite the fact that, after the Hamas terrorist attacks, the French Government banned demonstrations in favor of the Palestinians to avoid the possibility of violent and anti-Semitic acts.
Despite this ban, which was criticized by organizations such as Amnesty International, in the following days there were some Demonstrations in different parts of the country.
On October 7, Hamas carried out an attack of unprecedented dimensions on Israeli territory, leaving more than 1,400 dead, mostly civilians, and more than 200 hostages, whom it holds captive in the Gaza Strip.
A strong retaliation by Israel then began against that poor Palestinian enclave, controlled by Hamas since 2007, with cuts in food, water, electricity and fuel supplies and daily bombingsfollowed by a ground offensive that completed the siege of Gaza City on Thursday.
On October 27, Israel began a ground incursion that has already advanced to Gaza City, the main city of the Gaza Strip.
Source: TSF
