AhlulBayt News Agency (ABNA): Thousands of protesters have taken to the streets in the British capital London to call for an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and demand a total halt of arms supply to the Israeli regime amid its genocidal war in the besieged territory.
The demonstrators gathered at Piccadilly Circus in central London on Saturday and later marched to the Israeli Embassy, as they carried Palestinian flags and chanted pro-Palestinian slogans.
The participants in the rally also urged the British government to do more to stop the ongoing killing in Gaza, which has so far left more than 40,000 people dead over the past 11 months.
The latest protest comes after the UK government announced its decision to partially ban arms exports to the Israeli regime, saying that the partial ban would suspend 30 out of 350 arms export licenses for arms manufacturers supplying military equipment to the Israeli regime.
UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy announced the decision on Monday amid criticisms of London’s indirect involvement in the Gaza genocide.
Lammy warned that there is a “clear risk” that the banned weapons and ammunition provided by British weapons companies could be used to kill innocent Palestinians in a serious breach of international humanitarian law.
The suspension comes after months of pro-Palestinian protests in London and other cities demanding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and also a halt in British arms sales to Israel.
Since the start of Israel's genocidal war on Gaza in early October last year, the UK, and to a much larger extent the US, has been supplying all kinds of arms and munitions to the Israeli regime.
Media reports have revealed many of the weapons and ammunition shipments of arms manufacturers' goods to the Israeli regime are done quietly, without formal notification of governments, or the public knowing about it.
Tens of thousands of Britons have taken to Britain’s streets on multiple occasions in a nationwide rally against arming Israel.
Israel waged its brutal war on the Gaza Strip on October 7 after the Palestinian resistance groups carried out a historic operation against the usurping entity in retaliation for the regime’s intensified atrocities against the Palestinian people.
The Tel Aviv regime has so far killed at least 40,939 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injured 94,616 others. More than 1.7 million people have been internally displaced as well.
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