The protest comes after Hamas handed over three male Israeli captives as a part of the ceasefire settlement
1000’s of pro-Palestine demonstrators have marched by central London to protest Donald Trump’s proposal for the US to “take over” the Gaza Strip.
Waving Palestinian flags and brandishing placards saying “palms off Gaza”, a number of thousand individuals walked from Whitehall, in Westminster, to the US embassy in 9 Elms, in southwest London on Saturday.
Protesters additionally held banners that learn “Stand as much as Trump” and “Mr Trump, Canada shouldn’t be your 51st state. Gaza shouldn’t be your 52nd”.
Earlier this month, Trump’s suggestion that the US might redevelop the embattled enclave and switch it into the “Riviera of the Center East” attracted world condemnation.
His proposal goals to resettle Palestinians elsewhere, with no plan for them to return.
“I feel it’s fully immoral, unlawful, impractical and absurd,” 87-year-old Holocaust survivor Stephen Kapos advised the AFP information company.
“You merely can’t deport two million individuals, particularly that the encircling international locations already stated that they wouldn’t take them, not out of the goodness of their coronary heart however as a result of it will destabilise these international locations. So, it’s not going to occur however it does loads of harm merely stating that as an endgame.
![A man wears a mask depicting U.S. President Donald Trump as pro-Palestinian demonstrators attend a march in opposition to U.S President Donald Trump's plan to displace Palestinians from Gaza and "take over" the territory, in London, Britain February 15, 2025. [Chris J. Ratcliffe/Reuters]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-02-15T125116Z_442805191_RC20VCAD2INN_RTRMADP_3_ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS-BRITAIN-PROTEST-1739641957.jpg?w=770&resize=770%2C513)
The march, organised by the Palestine Solidarity Marketing campaign (PSC), was the twenty fourth main pro-Palestinian protest in London since October 7, 2023.
A heavy police presence was deployed as officers stored protesters away from a counter-march known as “Cease the Hate”, the place members waved Israeli flags.
Hamas’s assault resulted within the dying of at the least 1,100 individuals. As well as, roughly 240 had been taken captive.
Israel’s retaliatory marketing campaign has killed greater than 48,239 individuals whereas 111,676 individuals have been wounded. The Authorities Media Workplace has up to date its dying toll to at the least 61,709 individuals, saying thousands lacking underneath the rubble are actually presumed lifeless.
Earlier on Saturday, Hamas launched captives in trade for a whole bunch of Palestinians free of Israeli prisons, finishing the most recent swap of a fragile Gaza ceasefire deal.
Hamas issued an announcement after the discharge saying it was “a renewed message” to Israel.
“The discharge of the sixth batch of enemy prisoners confirms there isn’t a approach to free them besides by negotiations and by adhering to the necessities of the ceasefire settlement,” the group stated.
