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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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.

The Hamas War > Hamas' greatly exaggerated casualty numbers exposed

 

Gaza death toll inflated to promote

anti-Israel narrative, study finds

By 

Deirdre Bardolf

Published Dec. 14, 2024, 6:15 p.m. ET

Civilian death counts in the Israel-Hamas war have been inflated and distorted to portray Israel as deliberately targeting innocent civilians, a new study found.

The report from the UK-based Henry Jackson Society found that news outlets failed to distinguish between civilian and combatant casualties and relied on manipulated statistics from the Hamas-run Health Ministry when reporting on the war.

Gaza officials claim more than 44,700 people have been killed following the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks on Israel, but does not acknowledge that upwards of 17,000 were Hamas terrorists — a fact the media often omits, the study found, citing Israeli and US military and intelligence reports for its data.

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A think tank investigation into the Hamas-run Gaza Ministry of Health’s fatality reports revealed widespread inaccuracies and distortion in the data collection process throughout the war.

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An understanding of the Gaza fatality data is critical in understanding the conduct of the war by the IDF and Israel, the Henry Jackson Society argued.

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The “Questionable Counting” study, published on Saturday, charged that the ministry overstated casualty data by including natural deaths and over-reporting the numbers of women and children killed.

Men were included on lists of women killed in the conflict, while adults were included on counts of child deaths, researchers found.

“This misclassification contributes to the narrative that civilian populations, particularly women and children, bear the brunt of the conflict, potentially influencing sentiment and media coverage,” said Andrew Fox, the study’s author.

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Mohammed Abu Saied mourns as he carries the body of his four-year-old daughter Sila in Gaza on Dec. 9.

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Around 5,000 natural deaths appear to have been added to the list of casualties, including cancer patients who later appeared on lists of those still receiving treatment, researchers said.

The errors have “led to a narrative where the Israel Defense Forces are portrayed as disproportionately targeting civilians,” the report states.

Deep State's legacy media from all over the world reported 500 deaths as a consequence of an Israeli missile strike. The strike turned out to be a hole in the parking lot no more than a foot deep. Israeli missiles would make a much bigger impact than that. Al Jezeera footage showed the rocket breaking up in the air with one portion falling in the hospital parking lot. Experts admit this was not an Israeli missile. Several cars were burned in the parking lot, so a few deaths were certainly likely. But for 500 people to die they would all have had to be standing within a few meters of the impact spot, an absurd idea that never occurred to the far-left media. The IDF told the truth, Hamas lied as usual.

It is easy to accept that Hamas' casualty numbers are close to twice reality.

The investigation looked at all articles with Gaza fatality statistics published from February through May 2024 across eight major outlets: CNN, BBC News, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, Associated Press, Reuters and the Australian ABC.