Police brace for largest pro-Palestinian protest and impose Cenotaph exclusion zone
Police brace for largest pro-Palestinian protest and impose Cenotaph exclusion zone
Hundreds of thousands are due to take part in the march, while elsewhere commemorations take place for Armistice Day.
Which has been attacked by far right flag nonces. A video has been posted of the mob on Novara Media's Instagram page.
Meanwhile, a mile away, people are marching for armistice, peacefully.
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The Met said officers faced some "aggression from counter-protesters who are in the area in significant numbers", ahead of a service at the Cenotaph war memorial where a two-minute silence was held.
The Met expects Saturday's pro-Palestinian demonstration to be the largest since weekly marches began in early October, and it is deploying nearly 2,000 officers across central London.
The Palestine Solidarity Campaign, which has organised the march, has repeatedly stressed their route does not go past the Cenotaph, and has rejected appeals by the Met and politicians to postpone.
Other security measures announced by the Met include an exclusion zone using metal barriers around Whitehall and Parliament, and the US and Israeli embassies, as well as a 24-hour police guard at the Cenotaph.
No major protest is scheduled to take place on Remembrance Sunday, although the policing operation will continue with some 1,375 officers deployed amid commemoration events in the capital.
She claimed aggressive right-wing protesters were "rightly met with a stern response", while "pro-Palestinian mobs" were "largely ignored" - accusing the force of applying "double standards".
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