{"id":85674,"date":"2026-07-18T20:17:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T20:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/85674\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T20:17:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T20:17:08","slug":"thousands-rally-in-london-in-support-of-gaza-demand-new-pm-take-action-israel-palestine-conflict-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/85674\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands rally in London in support of Gaza, demand new PM take action | Israel-Palestine conflict News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__subhead\">Demonstrators call on Andy Burnham to impose arms embargo on Israel and pressure its government to end genocide.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"avatar\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-hidden=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/author\/daniel_khalili_tari_200622093119727\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1784405828_967_Me-1-1778058603.jpg\"   aria-hidden=\"true\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Published On 18 Jul 202618 Jul 2026<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of people have gathered in the British capital to protest Israel\u2019s genocidal war on Gaza, calling on the incoming prime minister to take immediate action.<\/p>\n<p>Demonstrators in London demanded on Saturday that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2026\/7\/13\/andy-burnham-in-line-to-become-british-pm-after-securing-party-support\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Andy Burnham<\/a> impose an arms embargo on Israel and pressure Tel Aviv to end its siege and war on the enclave, which has killed more than 73,000 Palestinians since October 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of list<\/p>\n<p>Labour leader Burnham is set to officially become the UK\u2019s next prime minister on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThree years of ongoing genocide \u2013 and the movement for justice and accountability, in Britain and worldwide, is growing louder and stronger,\u201d said Husam Zomlot, the Palestinian ambassador to the UK, in a post on X.<\/p>\n<p>Burnham\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/features\/2026\/7\/10\/andy-burnham-apology-for-labour-stance-on-gaza-is-uks-position-shifting\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Labour Party<\/a> has been severely criticised for its handling of the genocide under outgoing Prime Minister Keir Starmer. Despite mounting evidence that Israel has committed war crimes, his government continued to supply the country with weapons.<\/p>\n<p>Critics accuse Starmer and his cabinet of taking only symbolic measures against Israel, such as sanctioning far-right ministers Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich.<\/p>\n<p>Burnham faces a series of challenges as prime minister, including a cost-of-living crisis, spiralling student debt, a shortage of affordable housing and an exodus of party members over Labour\u2019s lacklustre response to Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>Zomlot led protesters as they marched through London, chanting slogans and carrying placards in support of Palestine.<\/p>\n<p>Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, who was expelled from the party by Starmer, also attended the march. Corbyn urged Burnham to end what he described as the UK\u2019s complicity in genocide.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThousands of us are in London today with a message to the new Prime Minister: we are not disappearing, we are not going away, and we will never stop campaigning for the liberation of Palestine. End Britain\u2019s complicity in genocide, now,\u201d Corbyn said in a post on X.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Demonstrators call on Andy Burnham to impose arms embargo on Israel and pressure its government to end genocide.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85675,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[26],"tags":[252,90,92,1365,30,41,27,42,18,250,6],"class_list":["post-85674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-london","tag-europe","tag-gaza","tag-genocide","tag-human-rights","tag-israel","tag-israel-palestine-conflict","tag-london","tag-middle-east","tag-news","tag-protests","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/116942828431931594","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}