Thousands protest for Palestinians in London
Tens of thousands of demonstrators are marching through the centre of London waving Palestinian flags and holding banners that say “Free Palestine”.
The pro-Palestinian demonstration packed some of central London’s wider streets as it marched from Russell Square to the Houses of Parliament. The protest took about 90 minutes to file past the group of less than 100 pro-Israel supporters who blared dance music and waved Israeli and British flags.
Pro-Palestinian demonstrators protest the Israeli war on Gaza, in London, UK June 8
Pro-Palestinian protesters slam Biden in ‘red line’ rally at White House
Thousands of Gaza war protesters have held a “red line” rally near the White House, voicing anger at US President Joe Biden’s tolerance of Israel’s bloody war in Gaza.
Chanting “From DC to Palestine, we are the red line”, the demonstrators held a long banner with the names of Palestinians killed by Israeli forces scribbled on it.
Biden has faced criticism for supporting the US’s key ally Israel’s actions in the war, which has entered its ninth month.
The White House said in May that a deadly Israeli strike on Rafah did not cross a “red line” that Biden had seemingly set two months earlier when asked about a potential invasion of the southern Gaza city.
The protesters – almost all wearing red clothing – held Palestinian flags and signs saying, “Biden’s red line was a lie” and “Bombing children is not self-defence”.
The White House stepped up security with an additional anti-scale perimeter fence ahead of the demonstration, which saw chartered buses ferrying in people from as far afield as Maine and Florida.
Pro-Palestinian demonstrators holding a ‘red line’, rally near the White House in Washington, DC, on June 8
Germany’s Scholz booed by pro-Palestinian protesters at last EU election rally
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz was giving a speech when he was heckled by pro-Palestine demonstrators.
He addressed the protesters saying they also belonged to a democracy that allows free speech, before saying that Hamas’s attacks on Israel were “inhumane”.
Your continued military support for genocide is inhumane.
Israeli police break up antiwar demonstrations in Haifa, arrest protesters
The Israeli police arrested at least three people during a demonstration in the city of Haifa in northern Israel to denounce the Nuseirat massacre in the Gaza Strip.
The police were seen breaking up the protest demonstration, in which a number of activists and citizens from the city of Haifa participated. They chased some of them in one of the city’s streets, assaulted them, and arrested them.
The protest movement was demanding an end to the war on Gaza and denouncing the massacres committed by the occupation authorities in the Gaza Strip, the most recent of which was the Nuseirat massacre.
Israeli police arrest protesters in Tel Aviv
Protests in support of the captives still held in Gaza and against the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, are occurring in Tel Aviv.
Israeli police are now saying that the number of people arrested at protests in Tel Aviv has risen to 33, The Times of Israel is reporting.
This video, verified by Al Jazeera, shows violent confrontations on Kaplan Street in Tel Aviv between police and demonstrators:
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Demonstration in West Bank over Israeli attack on Nuseirat
People have taken to the streets in Nablus in the occupied West Bank to protest after more than 200 Palestinians were reportedly killed in an Israeli attack on the Nuseirat refugee camp, the Wafa news agency is reporting.
Participants in the march called on the international community to do more to end Israel’s war crimes and for Palestinian unity against Israeli aggression, Wafa reported.
