Day-Mer members march for Palestine

Members of Day-Mer and the community took part in March calling for a ceasefire in Palestine and liberation of the Palestinian people.

Tens of thousands of pro-Palestinian protesters gathered to march in central London on Saturday to mark the passing of a year since the 7 October attacks in Israel which saw an attack kill 1200 Israelis at a music festival by Hamas fighters, marking a year of a bloody conflict in the region which has seen 41,000 Palestinian killed many believed to be children and women, and now thousands of deaths in neighbouring Lebanon.

Groups of activists convened in two areas in central London on Saturday morning amid a heavy police presence – one in Russell Square, one in nearby Bedford Square.

The Metropolitan police said the second march came across counter-protests at the junction of Kingsway and Aldwych and at the junction of the Strand and Trafalgar Square. Later they blocked Gower Street near the British Museum and police appeared to form a line to prevent the group meeting up with the other pro-Palestine march that began in Russell Square.

The Met said while the rally was largely peaceful officers had made 17 arrests so far as part of a “significant” policing operation across the capital in response to planned protest and memorial events including 3 people for assaulting an emergency worker .