Pro-Palestine protestors have rallied in Newcastle as the conflict between Isreal and Hamas enters its third month.
Hundreds of people calling for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, which the British government recognises as a terrorist organisation, marched along the Newcastle Quayside before a rally outside the Baltic on Saturday (December 9.
Many carried Palestinian flags and placards reading “ceasefire now”.
It comes two months since the start of the conflict in the Middle East and is the latest protest to be held in our region.
In London thousands gathered also calling for a ceasefire marching from Bank to Parliament Square. The Metropolitan Police imposed an exclusion zone prohibiting any protesters from assembling around the Israeli Embassy.
It comes after the UK chose to abstain on a United Nations Security Council resolution demanding an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza – a motion that was vetoed by the US.
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US officials told Israel ahead of the expansion of its ground offensive to southern Gaza several days ago that it must limit civilian deaths and displacement, saying too many Palestinians were killed when it obliterated much of Gaza City and the north.
Speaking at the UNSC meeting on Friday, UK ambassador to the UN Dame Barbara Woodward sad Britain backs “further and longer pauses” to get aid to Palestinians and to allow the release of Israeli hostages.
But she argued to the council that “we cannot vote in favour of a resolution which does not condemn the atrocities Hamas committed against innocent Israeli civilians” on October 7.
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