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Rosie Shead

Climate crisis and conflict in Gaza are ‘interlinked’, protesters say

More than 60 organisations, including Greenpeace, Amnesty International and the Palestine Solidarity Campaign came together at the protest on Saturday (Jonathan Brady/PA) - (PA Wire)

Protesters have said the conflict in Gaza and the climate crisis are “inextricably linked” as around 1,000 demonstrators marched through central London.

The protest, involving more than 60 groups including Greenpeace, Extinction Rebellion, Amnesty International and the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, rallied outside the British Museum on Saturday before marching to Downing Street to demand an end to the UK’s reliance on fossil fuels and that the Government ends its “complicity in Israel’s escalating genocidal violence”.

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