Pro-Palestinian protest march in London as Israel-Gaza ceasefire comes to an end

Around 200 pro-Palestine demonstrators marched in London today holding signs as the temporary ceasefire in Gaza came to an end.

Walking from Euston toward Camden Town, North London, protestors held signs denouncing the conflict and horror deaths seen in Gaza. One sign read: “Jews against genocide” while another accused Labour leader Starmer of having “blood on his hands”. This protest is part of a “day of action” organised by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, with events across the UK, MyLondon reported. After a week-long ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war, fighting resumed on Friday morning as the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) reported intercepting a rocket from Gaza.

Day of Action for Palestine protest

Israeli missiles have hit targets in the south of the Gaza Strip on Saturday. This suggests an extension of a ground assault in the area by the IDF, PA reports. The southern area is home to two million Gazans – three-quarters of the population – who were urged to move there by the IDF at the start of the war.

Lord Ricketts, the UK’s first national security adviser, warned that Israel could cause “massive civilian casualties” if it takes the fight to Hamas in southern Gaza. Speaking on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, he said: “They’ve got an increasing dilemma. They ordered a million people from the north to leave into the south. They now have two million people there, many of them displaced, many of them living out in the open.”

“They simply can’t use the same kind of armoured all-out assault that they used in the north without massive civilian casualties.” He said Tel Aviv’s plan to destroy Hamas “seems to me to be impossible” due to the political and social nature of the organisation.

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