{"id":202969,"date":"2025-06-21T16:38:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T16:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/202969\/"},"modified":"2025-06-21T16:38:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T16:38:10","slug":"pro-palestinian-demonstrators-march-in-london-amid-fears-of-wider-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/202969\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro-Palestinian demonstrators march in London amid fears of wider war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Tens of thousands of pro-Palestinian protesters marched in London on Saturday, calling for an end to the war in Gaza, amid concerns that the Iran-Israel conflict could spark wider regional devastation.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Protesters waved Palestinian flags, donned keffiyeh scarves and carried signs including \u201cStop arming Israel\u201d and \u201cNo war on Iran\u201d as they marched in the sweltering heat in central London.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cIt\u2019s important to remember that people are suffering in Gaza. I fear all the focus will be on Iran now,\u201d said 34-year-old Harry Baker, attending his third pro-Palestinian protest.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cI don\u2019t have great love for the Iranian regime, but we are now in a dangerous situation,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">There have been monthly protests in the British capital since the start of the 20-month-long war between Israel and Hamas, which has ravaged Gaza.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Saturday\u2019s march comes amid heightened global tensions as the United States mulls joining Israel\u2019s strikes against Iran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tens of thousands of pro-Palestinian protesters marched in London on Saturday, calling for an end to the war&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202970,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,1881,393,2194,4884,835,81843,81842,774,75101,81841,837,60948,81839,257,81840,1814,81844,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-202969","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-british","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-gaza","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-hamas","14":"tag-harry-baker","15":"tag-home-secretary-yvette-cooper","16":"tag-iran","17":"tag-iran-israel-conflict","18":"tag-iranian","19":"tag-israel","20":"tag-israeli","21":"tag-jose-diaz","22":"tag-london","23":"tag-nicky-marcus","24":"tag-palestine","25":"tag-palestinian","26":"tag-uk","27":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114722341151486364","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}