The Met Police is deploying a sharper policing approach with facial recognitionScuffles broke out between protesters and police officers in central London on Saturday as thousands descended on the capital with 40 marches planned across the country in solidarity with Palestinians amid the Hamas-Israel conflict.
In Newcastle, several women were pictured holding bloody effigies of dead babies while one dressed in a white shroud covered in fake blood. Police officers move to detain a protester in London amid demonstrations in solidarity with Palestinian civilians The Met Police said its policing operation today involves officers from its emergency response and neighbourhoods teams, as well as volunteer special constabulary officers and those from Kent Police.
A speaker told those assembled: 'Victory to the Palestinian resistance, until there is a free Palestine from the river to the sea and zionism, the repressive, monstrous state of Israel is smashed and torn down, brick by brick, rule by rule. The force said: 'Officers are responding to a group of protestors who have sat down and blocked Oxford Circus. This behaviour clearly impacts on London's ability to function normally and we are working quickly to reopen the road.
Flags and placards reading 'Freedom for Palestine' and 'End the Genocide' were waved in the air by members of the Newcastle Palestine Solidarity Campaign and Newcastle Stop the War, who organised the event. The Metropolitan Police said it has imposed a condition under Section 14 of the Public Order Act to prevent demonstrators gathering near the country's embassy in Kensington, west London.
As many as several hundred people turned up with videos on social media showing protesters sitting on the station concourse chanting 'ceasefire now', 'free, free Palestine' and 'in our thousands, in our millions, we are all Palestinians'. British Transport Police said its officers told protesters about the notice and advised them to leave.Most protesters left 'without incident' by 7.15pm, the force added, and some then joined a demonstration outside the station.
'While initial arrests were necessary, the rest of the protesters then complied with the prohibition order and quickly left the station.
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