Anti-Israel protesters head to Pakistan’s capital
Several thousand members of the Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) have begun marching towards Islamabad after violent clashes with police during anti-Israel protests in the eastern city of Lahore.
TLP began its protests in Lahore on Thursday and announced plans to march to the US embassy in Islamabad to voice its opposition to the US-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Hamas after two years of war in Gaza.
The demonstrations turned violent, with clashes between police and protesters on Friday. Traffic was disrupted in Lahore and in Islamabad, about 370km (230 miles) to the north, with authorities also suspending mobile internet connections and closing major roads.
Shipping containers were being placed as barriers across major roads in the capital in anticipation of the arrival of the protesters.
Pakistani policemen gather in front of a burning road tax collection point after it was set on fire by protesters
Pro-Palestinian protesters come from all over UK to join ‘huge’ London demonstration
There has been no cease to the demonstrations here in the UK expressing solidarity with Palestine – 32 of them have been held so far since October 2023.
This has been a huge one. Obviously, you can’t count these things; the police will give a number perhaps later, certainly tens of thousands of people out on the streets of London.
They’ve come from all over the country, they’ve come down on buses and trains. I’ve seen banners with the names of Bristol, Cambridge, Abergavenny, Chesterfield, Sheffield, and these are cities all over the UK.
It took well over an hour, probably an hour and a half, for the protesters to pass me as I was standing stationary. It was on a loop around Westminster and south of the River Thames as well. At one point, it seemed as if the front of the loop would catch up with the back of the loop – that’s how many people there were.
Pro-Palestinian supporters hold placards and wave flags in central London, on October 11, 2025, as they take part in the 32nd National March for Palestine since October 2023, organised by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign
The government in the UK is trying to make it more difficult for these sorts of demonstrations to happen. They want the police to have more powers to basically restrict repeat protests, the type of pro-Palestine demonstrations we’ve seen week in, week out in the UK for well over a year, coming up to two years.
At the moment, though, the laws have been unchanged, which means that this protest carried on as it would have done.
