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This is the best summary I could come up with:
Pro-Palestinian protesters rallied outside the boarded-up Israeli embassy in Kensington on Monday night, chanting “Israel is a terrorist state” and “free Palestine” while letting off flares and fireworks.
Footage posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, showed police separating pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian groups at High Street Kensington tube station, not far from the embassy.
Groups including Stop the War and the Palestine Solidarity Campaign gathered at the demonstration in Kensington, waving placards calling for Israel to “end the occupation”.
The Palestine Solidarity Campaign said in a statement: “The offensive launched from Gaza can only be understood in the context of Israel’s ongoing, decades-long, military occupation and colonisation of Palestinian land and imposition of a system of oppression that meets the legal definition of apartheid.
In Westminster, the security minister, Tom Tugendhat, the Liberal Democrat leader, Ed Davey, and the shadow foreign secretary, David Lammy, spoke at the pro-Israel vigil.
Speaking before the vigil at Finchley United Synagogue, the chief rabbi, Ephraim Mirvis, said: “No civilised person cannot be moved, cannot be deeply shocked by the scenes of brutal terrorist outrage in Israel.
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