A huge pro-Palestine protest was taken out in London calling for a permanent Gaza ceasefire amid the ongoing temporary truce between Israel and Hamas. Hundreds of people marched through central London in the pro-Palestinian march, a day after the exchange of hostages between Israel and Gaza took place. According to The Guardian, protestors chanted for a ceasefire as they marched with many draped with Palestinian flags, donning keffiyehs and armed with "Free Palestine" signs.
Police also held some agitators for holding anti-semitic placards.
"Pausing is something you do for Netflix, for a genocide you end it," one of the demonstrators said, adding "I’m here to platform voices that in the western hemisphere can easily be demonised just because of where these voices are held in the bodies of Arab people."
According to the report, Ben Jamal, the director of the Palestinian Solidarity Campaign, said, "We welcome the fact that Israeli women and children and Palestinian women and children, who have been held in illegal detention, have been returned to their families."
"But without a permanent ceasefire, the message being given by Israel and by governments who do not press them for a permanent ceasefire … to Palestinians in Gaza is you have a temporary stay of execution," Jamal said.
Police arrested one of the protesters in London near the start of the protest on suspicion of inciting racial hatred, the Met police said, as quoted by The Guardian. "Officers spotted him carrying a placard with Nazi symbols on it," police said.
Hamas released 25 hostages on the first day of the temporary truce and 17 more on the second day as the party of the deal.
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