Pro-Palestine protesters 'shut-down' London's Oxford Circus

Over 350 protesters staged a sit-in at Oxford Circus and Piccadilly Circus on Saturday, demanding Israel halt its bombing campaign and siege of the Gaza Strip.

The protest brought the capital’s busiest shopping district to a standstill for over an hour.

Demonstrators, many waving Palestinian flags, chanted "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free”, and held banners calling for a “ceasefire” and “no business as usual”.

“I am here because I have family in Gaza,” Ahmed Masoud, a Palestinian writer who grew up in the Gaza Strip, told Middle East Eye.

“My mum, my siblings… all of them live there. They’re really struggling, it’s like Russian roulette at the moment.”

You can read MEE reporter Katherine Hearst's full report from London below. 

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