100,000 Pro-Palestinian Protesters Take to London Streets to Demand Ceasefire

Police have arrested nine for suspected assaults on officers and alleged public order offences, a number of which are being treated as hate crimes.

Protesters during a pro-Palestine march organised by Palestine Solidarity Campaign in central London on October. 28, 2023. Jordan Pettitt/PA

A man was arrested on suspicion of making threats to kill as at least 100,000 pro-Palestinian protesters took to the streets of central London demanding a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war.

Flags and banners were waved, flares were lit and fireworks were let off as the mostly peaceful group of demonstrators snaked through the closed-off roads in Westminster on Saturday afternoon.