Gaza demonstrators challenge calls to cancel the marches after the synagogue attack

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Hundreds of demonstrators in London and Manchester challenged appeals to summon the pro -Palestinians demonstrations on Saturday, following a fatal attack on a synagogue.

The London march, organized by the group, defended our jury bodies, led to at least 175 arrests, as the police detained demonstrators carrying banners supporting the banned Palestinian action.

Politicians from several organizers called for the cancellation of protests to liberate the police resources after Thursday’s attack on a synagogue in Kromsal, Manchester, who left Mit Shaban Jews And three in the hospital. The police shot the attacker, Jihad Al -Shami, while one of the dead and one of the injured was also injured by the police.

Interior Minister Shabana Mahmoud said that he was “non -British” for the demonstrations to move forward in the wake of the Manchester attack.

Conservative leader Kimi Badnosh also called for the abolition of the demonstrations. On Saturday, after his visit to the attack site on Thursday, Badnosh wrote on X about her “anger” over the murders and described protests “anti -Semitism”.

The marches occurred before the second anniversary on Tuesday in Hamas The attack on Israel And the beginning of the war in Gaza.

In the protest in London, a crowd of organizers said that their number was gathering in the field of the party at 1 pm. When the police officers arrested the demonstrators carrying signs supporting Palestine, the crowd members shouted: “Shame on you!”

The defense of the jury bodies have argued that if the police wanted to liberate their resources, they will not be able to simply arrest people to support them, Palestine, a crime under the terrorism law.

Metropolitan police said that by 3.45 pm, 175 people were arrested in the field and six others were detained after a pro -Palestine banner was separated on the Westminster Bridge. The police were still arresting after 5 pm.

In Manchester, about 100 people attended the demonstration organized by the Friends of Greater Palestine in Manchester to celebrate what the organizers called “two years of genocide in Gaza.” The group, which was surrounded by the police, throughout the city center, is running: “Stop genocide; ending the apartheid.”

The police dismissed the protesters supporting the Palestinians from a separate small group carrying an Israeli union and science and clothes bearing the message “Make Britain Great again.”

The march moved without an accident, as one of the speakers said that the police in London should learn from its Manchester counterparts that the pro -events protests were about “peace and justice.”

Police in Greater Manchester, as in London, requested that people refrain from protesting in respect of the city’s Jewish community.

The terrorist police in the northwest said on Saturday that they were given the orders of more detention for four of the six people who were arrested after Thursday’s attack on suspicion of committing and preparing terrorism and inciting them. The other two also remain in reservation.

The repeated protests in London led to the ban on Palestine, which was presented in June, led to thousands of arrests, which put a severe pressure on the Capital Court system.

The Ministry of the Interior insisted that it was right to the group’s courts, noting the group’s direct action against many targets, including destroying the Royal Air Force plane at the Bize Norton Air base.