Reply #6: What's your beef? BBC has article today...(downplaying the numbers of course)

[DogPoundPup]

Thousands of demonstrators have marched through London to call for an immediate ceasefire in the conflict in Gaza.

The Metropolitan Police says 12,000 people marched but the BBC estimates the figure could be as high as 50,000.

The march has been organised by groups including Stop the War Coalition, the British Muslim Initiative and the Palestine Solidarity Campaign.

A peace rally organised by the Board of Deputies of British Jews is due to take place in the capital on Sunday.

Saturday's march started at Speaker's Corner in Hyde Park and is now passing the Israeli embassy in Kensington.

BBC correspondent Robert Hall said there was "very careful" stewarding and people were being channelled to the end point at the Royal Albert Hall.

"A few objects have been thrown at the gates to the embassy, pieces of wood and shoes, but this is a small number of people.

"But the majority of people are making a peaceful protest."

Protests are also taking place in Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Belfast, Newcastle and Southampton.

In Edinburgh around 300 shoes were thrown towards the US consulate by protesters.
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