A woman was filmed shouting at pro-Palestine protesters holding a Palestinian flag. In the shocking video filmed at Bakerloo Station yesterday (October 15) the woman repeatedly shouts ‘terrorist, this is a terrorist flag’ at the man holding a Palestine flag, before yelling ‘Pakistan’.
She was corrected by other travellers who told her that Pakistan’s and Palestine’s flags are completely different. The Palestine flag is of vertical black, white and green stripes, with a red chevron on the left, while Pakistan’s flag is dark green white a white crescent moon and star on it.
The woman also appears to hit the man with her bag but then accuses one of the men of "touching" her, which is contested by the person filming the incident. The video came on the same day that thousands of pro-Palestine protesters took to the streets of London, beginning at the BBC's Marylebone headquarters, before making their way down Whitehall to the gates of Downing Street.
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Seven arrests were made with over 1,000 officers deployed. The protest was in light of the ‘dire’ situation in Gaza which risks being 'pushed into abyss', despite Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu saying the ‘targeted’ airstrikes being ‘only the beginning’.
There has been shocking violence in the Middle East over the last week after Hamas raided Israel and Israeli homes, killing 1,300 and wounding 3,000. Israel’s response killed 1,900 Palestinians, and injured over 7,700.
As Israel prepares itself for a ground offensive, it has told 1.1million Gazans to evacuate to the south. The BBC reports that the evacuation would require 18,334 60-seater coaches.
There are three exits out of Gaza, the Erez crossing in the north, the Kerem Shalom goods crossing in the south-east, and the Rafah crossing to Egypt, in the south.
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