in London, tens of thousands of demonstrators demand “an end to the war in Gaza”

Two weeks after the start of the war between Hamas and Israel, nearly 100,000 people marched on Saturday October 21 in London to demand “the end of the war in Gaza” and support the Palestinians. At midday, demonstrators flocked to the Marble Arch district, in the center of the British capital, paralyzing the traffic of cars and buses in all the nearby arteries, noted an AFP journalist.

The procession which set off towards Whitehall, the street which leads to Downing Street, chanted relentlessly “Liberate Palestine”, with dozens of Palestinian flags and signs. Around 2 p.m., there were nearly 100,000 people, London police reported on X (formerly Twitter).

Thousands of people had already demonstrated last Saturday in London in support of the Palestinians. Like last week, the procession was placed under high surveillance, with a thousand police officers in the streets and a helicopter flying over the march. Other mobilizations also took place on Saturday in Birmingham, in central England, or in Cardiff, in Wales, as well as in other European cities.