200 Pro-Hamas protesters arrested in London

 

Over 200 arrested at London pro-Palestinian protest

By Simon Corlett

   

Metropolitan Police arrest members of the public who support "Palestine Action" which has been classed as a terrorist group in Parliament Square in London on Saturday. Photo by Hugo Philpott/UPI | License Photo

Aug. 9 (UPI) -- More than 200 people were arrested in London Saturday during a major pro-Palestinian protest in the British capital, police confirmed.

"We've now arrested 150 people in Parliament Square. While many of those remaining in the Square are media and onlookers, there are still people holding placards supporting Palestine Action," the Metropolitan Police Service said in an update on X.

"Officers are steadily working through the crowd making further arrests," added ahead of an update that confirmed the more-accurate arrest count.

"We're aware of a statement by Defend Our Juries (the organizers of today's protest) claiming we were only to arrest 'a fraction' of those breaking the law in Parliament Square this afternoon," the Met said on X.

"That claim simply isn't true. We estimate there were 500 to 600 people in Parliament Square when the protests began, but many were onlookers, media, or people not holding placards in support of Palestinian Action.

"We are confident that anyone who came to Parliament Square today to hold a placard expressing support for Palestinian Action was either arrested or is in the process of being arrested."

Officials said they are prepared for three days of similar demonstrations in the city, which has a population of around 9 million people.

A majority of the protestors are reportedly members of Palestine Action. The British government in July deemed the pro-Palestinian group a terrorist organization. A conviction for membership in the group can carry a 14-year prison term.

Police from other jurisdictions are being brought in to deal with the expected crowds over the weekend.

"This is going to be a particularly busy few days in London with many simultaneous protests and events that will require a significant policing presence," Deputy Assistant Commissioner Ade Adelekan said in a statement.

"I'm grateful not just to the Met officers who will be working incredibly hard over the coming days but to those colleagues from other forces who have been deployed to London to support us."

The demonstrations come days after Israel's security cabinet this week voted to approve Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's plan to take over control of Gaza.

Netanyahu later said the Israel Defense Forces would "free Gaza from Hamas" but that the military would not occupy the Palestinian enclave.

The plan has drawn international criticism, with several international leaders voicing their concerns this week.

"The Israeli Government's plan for a complete military takeover of the occupied Gaza Strip must be immediately halted," U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk said in a statement Friday.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said Friday his government is suspending further military exports to Israel over the latter's desire to take control of the Gaza Strip.

Artists perform at the walk for Palestine march in Central London on Saturday. Photo by Hugo Philpott/UPI | License Photo

I wonder where they were on Oct 8th, 2023?

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The Hamas War > One last moment of sheer terror before 3 hostages were released - the media missed it, of course

 

An obscene spectacle

Do the west's Israel-haters even understand what they saw today?

Melanie Phillips

Jan 19, 2025

Hamas terrorists “hold back” the Gazan mob menacing Israeli hostage Doron Steinbrecher at the moment of her release

To all those in the west who have perpetrated the lie of Israeli genocide in Gaza for the past 15 months: look at the pictures of the mob surrounding the three Israel women hostages who were freed today, and see thousands of Gazans who are well-fed, well-groomed and well-dressed.

What do you have to say now about the murderous libel you have perpetrated against the Israeli victims of these people, the lie that the Israelis were deliberately starving them, that they were the victims of Israeli-induced famine, that the Jews were behaving like Nazis? Do you have a scintilla of shame or regret about what you have done in spreading this foul incitement? Do you even understand what you saw today? Or are you too busy cheering on instead the pictures of those “pro-Palestinian” hate-marchers in London yesterday, dozens of whom were arrested by the police because they were absolutely determined to harass and terrorise British Jews at their synagogue Sabbath services nearby?

Look at that horrifying footage of those Gaza mobs, those enormous potential lynch mobs jeering and threatening the three Israeli women as they were handed over to the Red Cross — the same mobs who abused the live hostages and desecrated the bodies of the murdered ones when they were all dragged into Gaza after the October 7 massacre; look at that footage and then tell us all again that the vast majority of Palestinian Arabs in Gaza are innocent civilians and victims of the Israelis.

Enormous Gaza mob surrounds Red Cross vehicle involved in handover of Israeli hostages

Listen to those mobs chanting ecstatically for the murder of Jews in a willed repetition of the slaughter of Jews by Islam’s founder Mohammed in 7th century Khybar; then watch Sky News report this as a “celebration,” and then begin to understand the depravity of the western media that’s sanitised this barbarism for 15 months and demonised its victims.

Look at the thousands who have emerged in Hamas uniform and armed to the teeth, vowing to carry out more and more October 7 massacres until every Jew is dead and Israel is destroyed — Hamas murder squads loudly declaring that they will use the ceasefire to regroup, rearm and attack Israel; and then listen to the politicians hailing this development as the beginning of peace.

Hamas emerge in full regalia onto the streets of Gaza in a show of strength following the ceasefire

Look with breaking heart at the poignant joy and indescribable relief from suffering of the families reunited with their newly freed girls — how can this be anything other than a source not just of joy but also shuddering horror at what they have endured and at who knows what scars they will bear for the rest of their lives; and a source also of the most profound agony over the vast majority of the Israeli captives, both alive and dead, who remain incarcerated as pawns of these Palestinian Arab psychopaths, and who will now be used to eke out further unbearable distress among the hostages and their families, and to extort and manipulate the Israelis into ensuring that Hamas survive, regroup and resume the business of genocide.

All you who have connived at this obscenity, including the members of the Biden administration and the incoming Trump administration — yes, even though it was indeed Donald Trump whose arrival on the scene forced Hamas/Qatar to yield up this limited number of hostages but at a terrible price that no civilised nation should have expected any victimised people to pay, including enabling its genocidal enemy to regroup and re-emerge as a force for evil in a way that threatens to render worthless the supreme sacrifice made by all those Israeli heroes who have fallen in battle — you who are all falling over yourselves to take credit for the release of the hostages today, know this: that the spectacle of these innocents having to run the gauntlet of genocidal menace after 15 months in hell, this hostage negotiation that was more akin to a mafia-style hit-job forcing Israel under unimaginable pressure to release dozens of men who have slaughtered Israeli Jews over the years, who left hundreds of families permanently bereaved and shattered and are now being released to do it all again — you have produced a sickening theatre of sadism and cruelty on the eve of Trump’s inauguration, which casts a baleful shadow over the new and transformative era that tomorrow’s dawn will supposedly bring.

Let’s hope the Trump administration speedily redeems itself by helping Israel now rid the world once and for all of this evil. Because the Jewish people will never forget nor forgive what you have done.

*** My new book The Builder’s Stone: How Jews and Christians Built the West – and Why Only They Can Save It, can be bought on amazon.com and amazon.co.uk .

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Oct 7th Survivor Story > "God Save Me", and He did

 

‘God, save me’ – Former hostage recalls Hamas abduction

 January 8, 2025

Sapir Cohen and Alex Trufanov (Screenshot/Instagram)

“We hid under the bed, but then I heard ‘Allahu Akbar,’” said Sapir Cohen, recounting the terrifying kidnapping by Hamas terrorists.

By World Israel News Staff

A former hostage who was kidnapped by the Hamas terror group and held captive in the Gaza Strip spoke about her terrifying ordeal in a recent interview.

On the weekend of October 7, 2023, Sapir Cohen and her boyfriend Alexander (Sasha) Trufanov were visiting his parents in Kibbutz Nahal Oz.

Prior to the visit, Trufanov had expressed reservations about traveling to the kibbutz, but Cohen convinced him to go anyway, she told the TBN Israel YouTube channel.

The pair, who were staying in a separate kibbutz house near the Trufanov family home, were awakened on October 7 by nonstop air raid sirens.

Then, Cohen said, Trufanov received a WhatsApp message from his mother that terrorists had infiltrated the kibbutz.

“We hid under the bed, but then I heard ‘Allahu Akbar,’ I heard hundreds of terrorists storming houses. I heard things explode, the screams of the terrorists, the screams of the people killed by them, and I heard them come closer and closer to us. They were shooting everywhere, at everyone,” Cohen said.

  WATCH: Footage from Hamas prison shows inmates cruelly abused

She prayed for God to save her, she said. Then, terrorists burst into the room, separating her from Trufanov. They were both abducted to Gaza.

Cohen recounted crowds of civilians who jeered and attempted to beat her as she was taken into the Strip on a motorcycle.

Once in Gaza, Cohen was held alongside other captives who had been kidnapped during the massacres.

“I remember that I saw the other hostages, that one of them just lay down, and he closed his eyes. He didn’t want to be a part of this reality,” Cohen told TBN. “I saw a young girl that was shaking, and I saw people that all their families were in the kibbutz on that day and they didn’t know what happened to their children, to their parents.”

Cohen said that once again she prayed for God to save her, so that she could help support other hostages.

After 55 days in captivity, Cohen was freed during a ceasefire.

Troufanov is still held in the Strip. His mother, Yelena, and grandmother, Irina, who were also kidnapped, were released in the same deal as Cohen.

His father, Vitali, was murdered on October 7.