Over a thousand people came to Parliament Square to protest on the proscription of Palestine Action. Protesters, many of them old people including disabled, held placards to say they opposed genocide and supported PA with the foreknowledge that they would be arrested by police under terrorism law. Police made one by one arrests to a significant opposition from the crowd who screamed “Shame on you” and attempted to block each of the extractions. While the protest began on Saturday early afternoon, arrests continued till the night. In the morning, the police announced that almost 900 arrests were made at the event.
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Palestine Action was proscribed as a terrorist organisation in July after the group claimed responsibility for an action in which two Voyager planes were damaged at RAF Brize Norton on 20 June.

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.

Hundreds of Syrians were celebrating the fall of the now-runaway dictator Bashar Al’Assad in the streets of London. Assad was toppled after more than four decades of rule in a surprise offensive by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), an Islamist rebel group with former links in Al-Quaeda. Its leader Ahmed al-Sharaa is now promising an inclusive society for all Syrians.

London, 08/12/2024