According to London police, three hundred thousand people demonstrated on the streets of London on Saturday to demand a ceasefire in the Middle East, five weeks after the Hamas attack in the south of the Jewish state and the Israeli response in the Gaza Strip.
This was “the largest march” organized in the British capital since hostilities began, the Metropolitan Police said.
At this demonstration, which was organized against government advice after the World War I Armistice commemorations, an extensive security system was deployed to prevent possible riots. In the morning there were clashes between the police and right-wing extremist activists.
The Conservative government had made its hostility to the march clear and many voices in the majority were in favor of an outright ban. Interior Minister Suella Braverman described the protests as “hate marches.”
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