A PLOT to attack British buildings linked to Israel was uncovered yesterday — as up to 30,000 pro-Palestinian demonstrators marched through central London.
Protest group Palestine Action has drawn up a “hit list” of defence companies with offices and factories in the UK that it intends to smash up with sledgehammers.
AFPProtest group Palestine Action has drawn up a ‘hit list’ of defence companies with offices and factories in the UK that it intends to smash up[/caption]
GettyOther protesters set off flares and chanted: ‘Rishi Sunak, shame on you’[/caption]
The sinister plan was revealed as protesters marched through central London towards Downing Street, with seven arrests in clashes with police.
Demonstrators were draped in Palestinian flags and held placards with “Free Palestine” and “Stop bombing Gaza” scrawled on them.
Two women were also pictured wearing drawings of paragliders.
Hamas used paragliders to cross into Israel and launch their attack last weekend.
The women sparked fury online with calls for them to be charged with a public order offence.
Police are believed to have images of their faces and are investigating.
Other protesters set off flares and chanted: “Rishi Sunak, shame on you.”
Thousands more took part in other rallies across the country, including in Manchester, Liverpool, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Newcastle and Bristol.
Earlier, the BBC’s London HQ was splattered with red paint with Palestine Action claiming responsibility.
The BBC’s Hanover Building in Liverpool was also sprayed with red paint — despite the corporation being criticised for refusing to call Hamas “terrorists”.
A Palestine Action spokesman warned: “Spreading the occupation’s lies and manufacturing consent for Israel’s war crimes means that you have Palestinian blood on your hands.”
Meanwhile, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu wore a flak jacket as he visited his nation’s forces outside Gaza.
He asked them: “You ready for the next stage? The next stage is coming.”
AFPIsraeli troops in tanks amass in a field near the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon[/caption]
Netanyahu also wrote online: “With the soldiers on the front line with Gaza. We are all ready.”
Yesterday the Foreign Office confirmed two planes were flying Britons out of Israel.
Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said: “We expect more to leave in the coming days.”
Palestinian authorities said the death toll in the Gaza Strip had reached 2,200 and almost 10,000 wounded after a week of Israeli strikes in response to Hamas atrocities last Saturday that killed 1,300.
Residents fled northern Gaza after Israel’s military warned them to leave amid claims an Israeli strike on a convoy of fleeing refugees killed 70 — mostly women and children.
Hamas claimed nine hostages including four foreigners were among 324 people killed on Friday.
Last night a “safe passage” deadline for residents to leave their homes had passed.
There was chaos with hospitals overwhelmed amid mass casualties and dwindling supplies.
Israeli forces, meanwhile, found the bodies of several hostages seized by Hamas in the Gaza Strip where up to 200 were being held.
US citizens in Gaza were being urged to move to a crossing point into Egypt.
The United Nations has said more than 400,000 Gazans had been displaced in the last week.
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said: “We need immediate humanitarian access throughout Gaza, so that we can get fuel, food and water to everyone in need. Even wars have rules.”
Last night PM Rishi Sunak voiced his support for Israel — while his wife Akshata Murty lit a candle at 10 Downing Street.
Mr Sunak, right, said: “I know that the days and weeks ahead will continue to be very difficult.
“To the people of Israel, I say Britain is with you. What took place was an act of pure evil and Israel has every right to defend itself.”
PAPolice officers and protesters clash in Trafalgar Square during a March for Palestine in London[/caption]
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