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SvennoJ on 27 March 2025
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Activists in Bristol protest trial of pro-Palestine group

Pro-Palestine activists in Bristol, UK, have staged a protest in support of 18 people currently facing trial over an earlier action against the Israeli defence company Elbit Systems.

Video verified by Al Jazeera’s fact-checking unit shows the protesters chanting slogans calling for the charges against them to be dropped.

The trial stems from a protest last August after which seven people were charged with criminal damage, violent disorder and aggravated burglary. Palestine Action, the group behind that protest, had rejected allegations of violence against police and security staff and said the authorities had launched a “smear campaign” to prejudice the outcome of the trial and “lay the groundwork for the police unjust use of authoritarian powers”.

“We refuse to be intimidated into allowing a genocide to happen,” the group said at the time.

On its website, Palestine Action describes itself as aimed at “dismantling British complicity with Israeli apartheid”.

 

Israeli police crack down on antigovernment protests in Tel Aviv

Video verified by Al Jazeera’s fact-checking unit shows mounted police running down protesters during a march in Tel Aviv.

Israelis are demonstrating en masse tonight, demanding that Netanyahu’s government strike a deal with Hamas to return the remaining captives held in Gaza.



Five people arrested in anti-government protests in Israel: Report

The Israeli newspaper Haaretz is reporting that the arrests were made as Israeli protesters headed towards the Israeli military headquarters in Tel Aviv.

The newspaper said mounted police attempted to block the march, knocking some protesters to the ground.

Some demonstrators managed to make it onto Tel Aviv’s main highway, where police arrested two people, as well as another three protesters who were in the march.

Haaretz reported that Einav Zangauker, the mother of a captive, said that police on horseback whipped her daughter and other protesters around them.


Anti-government demonstrators raise flags and placards as they protest against moves by the Israeli government to dismiss Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara and the head of the internal security agency, Ronen Bar, at Habima Square in Tel Aviv, on March 27