Thousands join Pro-Palestinian march in London

One protester, Sandi, a Palestinian who has family in Gaza, said that she had not heard from her relatives there for the last 10 days.

“The internet connection is down, so sometimes it’s longer – weeks – that I don’t hear from them,” she told the BBC.

“Like everyone else in Gaza, they’re suffering from a lack of safety, access to food, internet, medical aid and freedom of movement.”

Stephen Kapos, a Holocaust survivor, said he was attending the march to express solidarity with the Palestinian people and to protest against what he described as Israeli leaders’ “misuse of the memory of the Holocaust”.

“It is an insult to my family, an insult to the memory of the Holocaust and an insult to the suffering of that period. I’m protesting against that. Not in our name,” he said.