40,000 people march through London calling for the release of the hostages.

[keenforhelp]

Bravo UK!

"In one of the biggest shows of UK solidarity with Israel since October 7, over 40,000 people marched through London on Sunday afternoon, calling for the hostages to be released.
In a sea of yellow ribbons and balloons, people from across the spectrum of Anglo-Jewry and many supporters of other faiths marched from Holborn down to Whitehall, chanting “Bring them home”, waving Israeli flags, carrying posters with the words “Time is running out” and singing along to Israeli songs blasting from loudspeakers."

"Addressing the crowd of thousands outside Downing Street, Lord Stuart Polak said he had “never in my life seen such a crowd here in Whitehall. You should all be proud of yourselves."
He added that we are “haunted by the deafening silence” of international organisations and bodies who have not done enough to rebuke the actions of Hamas."

https://www.thejc.com/community/40-000-people-march-through-london-calling-for-the-release-of-the-hostages-uf4n9es1

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clkkxmmv4m9o

🤣🤣🤣 never seen such a crowd in Whitehall? Umm BLM, pro Palestine groups, environmental activists, anti lockdown protesters, even Tommy Robinson and his supporters have all marched recently and drawn in significantly larger crowds. It's just not shown by MSM so people are not aware.

As for being haunted by the deafening silence that's just ridiculous when nearly every country in the West has condemned Hamas.

Chances are they've killed their own hostages with the air strikes they've launched against Gaza. I no longer believe it's about getting the hostages back because they wouldn't be flattening a country if they thought their own were amongst them.

All I see here is innocent people getting killed and there's no winners on either side, it will continue for decades as it always has.

I don't understand how "rebuking hamas" would bring home the hostages?? I would regard the way the Israeli Government has behaved in this conflict as being one of the biggest threats to the lives of those hostages. Bringing them home will have to involve negotiation, something Israel never seems willing to do. The latest peace plan put forward by Biden needs to be adopted unreservedly by Netanyahu now. I get the impression the families of the hostages have become increasingly pissed off with their Government's handling of all this.

@spuddy4 3 laughing faces whilst discussing the death of hostages including children?

Good to see....thanks for posting

@keenforhelp I believe the United States had its own Israel Day on the same day too. A lot of show of support, including the New York City Mayor, Eric Adams, who was with Eden Golan.

@DownNative Yup.

Israel/Israelis/Jewish people hardly isolated. And will be supported even more when Trump (though I detest him) regains power.

https://apnews.com/article/israel-day-parade-manhattan-new-york-gaza-6a1cd208437ee8e6a7332ce28c29d8a6

I hope they release the hostages soon 🙏

No, laughing faces whilst discussing Lord Stuart Polak but I suspect you know that already when you read further and saw the bit I wrote about innocent people dying.

@shittestusernameever love the username!

As if Hamas is going to care what a bunch of non-Muslim Brits think. There's no humanity in those men, they will never release those hostages.

@spuddy4 I'm still missing the hilarity, no I don't 'know that' and I don't get it at all. Perhaps consider that people on MN know people directly involved on both sides of the conflict and try and show humanity and decency?

I was just going to post 'great to see, if I'd known and were close, I would have joined them' BUT, I do not support Israeli actions. You said this march was in solidarity with Israel, I wouldn't want my attendance to be misread as support for Israeli actions in Gaza.
I'd really like to wear in Israeli flag badge, in support of the hostages, I don't though because I don't want anyone to think I support the Israeli gov. Likewise, I wouldn't wear a Palestinian flag (as much as I'd like to) because people seem determined to read it as support for Hamas.

Bravo UK

Only a ceasefire will bring the hostages back, so I’m glad that is something you support keenforhelp, keep the action up, pressure Netanyahu.

Exactly my thoughts. Beyond tasteless. Heartless and rude. Shame on you @spuddy4

I agree hostages should be released - Israel should get the message now and release 1000s of innocents souls they have locked up.

This comment and the laughing emojis are a disgrace.

There is no equivalence under IHL between hostages and prisoners. 🧐

Nope. Chances are Hamas have murdered, tortured and raped them. Because that's what they do. Probably paraded them through their supporters in Gaza to give the Palestinians an opportunity to jeer and spit on their corpses. Want the bombing to stop? Then hamas need to either release the hostages or admit to what they have really done with them. And the Palestinians need to give up their elected leaders. And there might have been 'only' 40,000 there, but there were many thousands of us supporting them from home.

Why are you laughing? What about hostages being killed is worth that

Horrendous

@spuddy4 why the heck are you laughing?

What an absolute disgrace - do you have any idea about what happened to these poor hostages? Their fate has been worse than death.

And you used laughing emojis on a thread about hostage release!

As usual with the Israelis it was a beautifully dignified March too,

Such a contrast to the hate-filled pro-Hamas intimidations.

"Prisoners" you mean kidnapped people (mostly kids) that haven't even had a trial?

No, I meant prisoners. What does Hamas call the Palestinians in Israeli prisons?

Prisoners also.

As I said, the terms hostage and prisoner is very clearly defined in IHL. And that's more authoritative than your opinion. 🤷‍♂️