London police arrest 150 pro-Palestinian protesters
The police in London arrested 150 people after violating a new law that intentionally prohibited support for a pro -Palestinian group, because they said that the legislation had inappropriate freedom of expression.
London’s metropolitan police said the officers were working continuously on the crowd and making more arrests.
The supporters of the Palestinian action have held a series of protests in the UK since the beginning of July, when the parliament declared the group illegally and forbade everyone to support it.
After the activists entered a royal Air Force base and destroyed two tanker planes, politicians banned the group as a terrorist organization.
The protesters gathered in the square outside the parliament Saturday afternoon and showed dozens of signs: “I oppose the genocide. I support the Palestinian action”.
It was enough for the police to get in.
“In this crowd, a significant number of people exhibit banners that express support to the Palestinian action,” a significant number of people in this crowd. ” He said.
“Officers moved and arrest.”
Interior Minister Yette Cooper banned Palestinian action after entering a British Air Force Base in Southern England on June 20 to protest his military support for Israel’s war with Hamas on June 20th.
The activists sprayed red paint on the engines of the two tanker planes at the Raf Brize Norton Base in Oxfordshire and caused more damage with the Levay bars.
The Palestinian action had previously targeted that they believed that Israel had connected with the defense contractors and the Israeli army in England.
The supporters of the group are challenging the prohibition in the court, saying that the government has gone too far to declare the Palestinian action to declare a terrorist organization.
The group, “the meaning of terrorism, the meaning of violence against a civilian population, and the rich, strong and criminal to the criminal economic damage or embarrassment of those who have expanded, the right of freedom of expression has no meaning and democracy died.”
The arrests outside the Parliament are expected to have an intense weekend demonstrations in London as a war in Gaza and concern about the protests of migration in the United Kingdom and against protests.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer, while this year’s plans to get to know a Palestinian state in the future, many Palestinian supporter government in the UK criticizes the Gaza to end the war is criticized.
The pro -Palestinian protesters were gathering in the center of London on Saturday for a march planned to end outside the gates of the Prime Minister’s official residence and offices, the number 10 Downing Street.
On Sunday, a march is planned to be in the center of London to demand the safe release of Israeli hostages in Gaza.
