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Tens of thousands of people are marching in central London calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.
The demonstration, organised by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC), is making its way from Hyde Park Corner to the US Embassy in Nine Elms.
It is the 10th pro-Palestinian march in central London since Israel started its campaign in Gaza following the 7 October attacks on Israel by Hamas.
Singer Charlotte Church was seen at the front of march as it set off.
The Welsh singer, who has been a vocal campaigner, said she had joined to “show solidarity” with Palestinians “for all that they are suffering through”.
There is a large police presence for the demonstration, and the Metropolitan Police Service has said the march must end by 17:00 GMT.
Also at the march was former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, who now sits as an independent MP.
He told PA News Agency the demonstration was “enormous and we’re here because we’re appalled at the bombing that’s still going on in Gaza”.
The march comes after the government’s counter-extremism commissioner this week said London had become a “no-go zone for Jews” at the weekends during the marches.
And earlier, Mark Gardner, who leads the Community Security Trust which provides security for the Jewish community, told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme some Jewish people were choosing to avoid central London because of the demonstrations.
He said: “Again and again just people saying ‘I’m not going into town at the weekend because of these demonstrations… I don’t want the risk that they realise I’m Jewish and start shouting abuse at me’.”
But march organiser Ben Jamal called the no-go zone comments “disgraceful”.
“The reality is, you will see these are people from all walks of life from many backgrounds who here marching for peace, and as the police themselves admit these marches are overwhelmingly peaceful,” he added.
Church, who is due to talk as part of an all-female line-up of speakers at the rally later to mark International Women’s Day, said: “There’s been singing there’s been drumming, yes, there’s been emotion, but in the majority that emotion has been love, has been compassion because that’s why we’re all here.”
Israel’s military launched an air and ground campaign in the Gaza Strip after Hamas’s deadly attacks on Israel on 7 October, in which about 1,200 people were killed and 253 others were taken hostage.
More than 30,800 people have been killed in Gaza since then, the territory’s Hamas-run health ministry says.
The conflict has created a growing humanitarian crisis in the territory and the UN has warned that famine in Gaza is “almost inevitable”.
At least 576,000 people across the Gaza Strip – one quarter of the population – are facing catastrophic levels of food insecurity and one in six children under the age of two in the north are suffering from acute malnutrition, a senior UN aid official warned last week.
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