National March for Palestine - 77 years of Nakba. London, UK, 17/05/2025

100.000 people marched through London to commemorate Nakba (catastrophe - ethnic cleansing of approx 700.000 Palestinians during creation of Israel in 1948) while Israel intensified its war campaign on Gaza and continued its blockade of aid, food and fuel to the strip. At the same time, a small group of pro-Israeli protesters danced to loud music and cynically thanked pro-Palestinian protesters for joining their celebration of creation of the Israeli state. Meanwhile, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and former defense minister Yoav Gallant continue to face arrest warrants for alleged war crimes in Gaza and International Criminal Court has ruled that Israeli acts in the strip constitute a plausible genocide.
Latest figures by the Gaza Ministry of Health put the number of dead Palestinians over 53.000 mostly women and children. Tens of thousands were injured with all public hospitals in Gaza now out of action from Israeli bombing.
Israeli current siege of Gaza was triggered by a terrorist attack by Hamas and other Palestinian groups on Israel that killed almost 1200 mostly civilians and took another 250 hostages on 7th October 2023.