Independent, 12 July 2014 – Several hundred pro-Palestinian demonstrators rallied outside the Israeli Embassy in west London yesterday, holding up placards that read “Gaza: End the Siege” and “Freedom for Palestine.”
The roads were blocked as protesters, who had initially held the pavement on one side of the road, swamped the street causing traffic to come to a standstill.
Several members of the demo climbed on top of a double-decker bus as the crowd took pictures and waved the Palestinian flag.
The police said that the protest was largely peaceful.
As many as 3,000 people congregated at the Norwegian parliament in Oslo, while a smaller protest was held in Paris where 100 people demonstrated near the French Foreign Ministry.
The death toll in Gaza now stands at 120, a health ministry spokesman said, after Israel’s military continued to rain down airstrikes last night hitting a
Another demonstration is planned for the same location in London today, while the Palestine Solidarity Campaign stages further protests in Cambridge, Brighton, Aberdeen, Sheffield and Dublin among others.