Hundreds of thousands took to the streets of London on Saturday in support of the Palestinian Arabs, marking two years of the war in Gaza. Protesters gathered at Victoria Embankment in central London and marched towards Westminster, before crossing the Westminster bridge and proceeding to Whitehall via Waterloo Bridge and the Strand. Marchers, some 700,000 strong, chanted slogans like "Stop starving Gaza" and "End the siege" while the police held Zionist provocateurs at bay to avoid trouble in what, once again, was an entirely peaceful demonstration.
The protest came as displaced Palestinians began returning from the southern part of the Gaza Strip to the north the day after after the ceasefire brokered by the Americans and the feudal Arab oil princes ended the fighting in the beleaguered Palestinian enclave.
Meanwhile Ellie Chowns, the Green MP for North Herefordshire, has called on the Israelis to free Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti, who was jailed on trumped up charges of terrorism in 2002. “Marwan Barghouti is a powerful unifying voice for Palestinians who could potentially play a crucial role in securing meaningful and lasting peace in the region” she said amid renewed international attention on Barghouti, as new details emerge about his ill-treatment in Israeli custody.
Palestinian sources say that Barghouti was beaten up by Israeli guards on 14th September while being transferred between the Ganot and Megiddo prisons. The 66-year-old reportedly suffered four broken ribs during the attack.
His son, Arab Barghouti, said that eight Israeli prison guards assaulted Marwan while in transit. "What we know is that while they were transferring my father, they stopped along the way and eight security guards... started beating my father up, kicking him, throwing him on the ground and punching him – focusing on the head, chest and legs as well".
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