Opera performer unfurls Palestinian flag on London stage as UK protests escalate

The company spokesman said, “The screening of the flag was an unauthorized action by the artist. It was not approved by the Royal Ballet and its opera, and it is a completely inappropriate action,” he said.

The London protest came to the end of dramatic protests near the United Kingdom Parliament, where the police arrested some of the participants because they explicitly supported a group prohibited as a terrorist organization.

“I oppose the Genocide, I support the Palestinian action, lard they shook the banners, on Saturday, they gathered in Manchester, Edinburgh, Bristol, Londonderry and Truro.

After deciding that the government should be called a terrorist group, the British Parliament voted on 2 July to ban the Palestinian action group with 358 to 26 votes.

Palestinian action members entered the Royal Air Force Base in Brize Norton in Oxfordshire on June 20, protesting the British military support against Israel’s war with Hamas. The activists sprayed red paint on the jet engines of the two large tanker planes and caused more damage to the lever.

Support for the membership or actions of the group may be sentenced to imprisonment of up to 14 years.

Police, before the Saturday protests in the center of London, the right to protect the right to protest, but the demonstrators will violate the law, he said.

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“In an independent protest, those who see the opportunity to test the limits of the law by supporting the Palestinian action as part of the Palestinian coalition protest in an independent protest,” an independent protest, will probably commit a crime and will probably be arrested. “

According to the campaign group that organized protests on Saturday, the Palestinian action supporters, scheduled for the Supreme Court in London to take into account the case on Monday, challenge the ban.

Our juries said in a statement, about 100 protesters were arrested on Saturday.

In London, police officers besieged the demonstrators gathered in Mahatma Gandhi statue, standing in a park opposite the street from parliament houses. The officers confiscated the posters and called the bags of those arrested.

Metropolitan police in the capital Telegram notified. The force said they were arrested in accordance with the 13th part of the 2000 Law of Terrorism.

Later, until 16:00, the main Palestinian coalition March was arrested in March and the total of 65 in London, he added.

. Telegram He reported that the pro -Israeli counter protesters cheered “no genocide ve in the pro -Palestinian demonstrators and shouts an activist:“ You use it as an excuse for your hatred for the Jewish state. ”

They organized signs that say, “There is no genocide-but there are still 50 hostages ve and were welcomed by some pro-Palestinian protesters by shouting“ fascist ”and“ F — Jewish state ”.

. Telegram He also reported that eight people were arrested in the Truro Cathedral steps in Cornwall. Defending our juries, one of the arrested 81 -year -old magistrate Deborah Hinton said. The video, which was published online, showed that the police carried a man away from Truro while shouting, orum I oppose the genocide ”.

The critics of the protests described them as anti -Semitic.

“These cheers show how weak the coating is and why they are fixed to Israel. The truth is that they cannot withstand the idea of the Jews who appointed their own destiny.” Telegram.

“The Palestinian action has always been an extreme and hateful organization, and instead of arrest and release its supporters, they must now face all the power of the law.”

According to the Nasser Hospital in Gaza Ministry of Health and Khan Younis, at least 36 people were killed by Israeli fire on Saturday, on Saturday, on a dawn distribution area.

The Israeli Army said he had warned the suspects who approached their troops after not paying attention to the calls for stopping, about one kilometer away from an active aid distribution zone at that time.

Muhammad al-Khaldidi, a resident of Gaza, said he was in the group approaching the site and had no warning before he started shooting.

Im We thought they went out to organize us so that we can get help, suddenly (i) saw the jeeps and tanks from the other, and he started to shoot at us, ”he said.

The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, a US -backed group operating the aid area, said that there was no incident or death there on Saturday and that people warned that people not to go to the dark distribution points.

“The reported IDF (Israeli Defense Forces) activity caused deaths hours before our sites opened, and our understanding took place a few kilometers away from the nearest GHF region,” he said.

The Israeli army said he had reviewed the incident.

The war began with the entry of the militants led by Hamas in October 2023 and killed 1200 people, killed mostly civilians, and took 251 hostages back to Gaza.

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The Israeli military campaign against Hamas in Gaza has killed approximately 58,000 Palestinians since then, according to most health authorities, civilians have displaced almost the entire population, and the settlement immersed in a human crisis and left most of the region in ruins.

In Israel and Hamas, in Doha, they have indirect negotiations aimed at reaching a pledge agreement that the 60 -day ceasefire proposed by the US and Egypt and Qatar intermediaries, but there is no close sign of breakthrough. It is believed that at least 20 of the 50 hostages in Gaza are still alive.

Reuters with AP

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