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Key of Return

On Saturday 18 May, the 14th national rally since October 2023 was organised by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign and other groups, and possibly as many as 250,000 protesters marched across central London from Mortimer Street W1 (near the BBC headquarters at Broadcasting House) to Whitehall, just a few metres away from prime minister Rishi Sunak's office and residence at 10 Downing Street.

It is difficult to estimate the total number of demonstrators but I stopped on Regent Street to photograph individuals and groups, and it took at least an hour for the majority of the marchers to pass.

Many of those participating did so in part to commemorate Nakba Day, the 76th anniversary of which fell three days earlier on 15 May. Nakba Day commemorates the brutal ethnic cleansing and expulsion of 750,000 Palestinians from their homes and villages in the months after 15 May 1948 by the Israeli army and Zionist militia. Although historians point out that the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from their land long predated 15 May 1948, and has continued ever since.

Many of the protesters carried the iconic "Keys of Return," symbolising the right of Palestinian refugees to return to their original homes, which was recognised by The United Nations UN General Assembly Resolution 194 which was passed on December 11, 1948.

Protesters were also demanding an immediate ceasefire, an immediate resumption and expansion of emergency aid and an end to the siege of Gaza and the illegal Israeli Occupation.

The march occurred just two days before the International Criminal Court's (ICC's) lead prosecutor, Karim Khan, announced that arrest warrants for war crimes had been requested for Israel's prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defence Minister Yoav Gallant. It was Gallant who in October 2023 infamously justified his declaration of a "complete siege " on Gaza by claiming Israel was "fighting against human animals."

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Taken on: May 18, 2024

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