Police made multiple arrests as hundreds of people gathered in central London on Saturday to protest against the ban on Palestine Action.
Demonstrators converged on Trafalgar Square, where many sat on camping chairs and on the ground, displaying placards that read: "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action."
Approximately 100 police officers were present at the base of the square, approaching the protest in formation before arrests began.
A spokesperson for the Metropolitan Police said officers have so far arrested 92 people and confirmed all of the arrests made during the demonstration at Trafalgar Square are for showing support for a proscribed organisation.
The ages of those arrested range from 27 years old to 82 years old, the force said.
In a post on X, the Metropolitan Police added their officers are “continuing to make more arrests and a group remains in Trafalgar Square.”
Several individuals were carried out of the crowd, with one woman requesting a rest as she was lifted away.
Bystanders reportedly shouted "stop harming women" as officers briefly placed her on the ground before resuming the arrest.
Another woman was seen being carried out by officers amidst chants of "shame on you" from the crowd.
Police also lifted a man out in handcuffs and escorted an elderly protester, who was using a walking stick, to waiting police vans.
One woman shouted: “Yeah she looks like a terrorist, doesn’t she mate?”
A female protester holding a Palestine Action protest sign, told the Press Association: “I’ve been arrested once before, but I wasn’t prepared to do it today for various reasons.
“I have grandchildren to look after. I’m here to support.”
The 69-year-old, who preferred not to be named, was asked if being arrested put her off protesting and she said: “Of course not”.
She added: “It is the most important thing, and I’m old, in my lifetime, it’s huge.
“It’s a real takeover of the world and its resources. And it’s terrifying.
“There is a massive genocide that has gone on for a really long time.
“They have a lust for murder, a lust for hanging. A lust for torture.”
A 53-year old woman, who also preferred to remain anonymous and held a sign reading “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action” as she sat in London’s Trafalgar Square, said protesters were exercising a “civil right”.
She said: “The Government have been lobbied by the Israeli state, and they want to get rid of an organisation that opposes genocide – is trying to dismantle the tools of genocide, you know, by taking direct action on weapons manufacturing, and that’s like a civil right to be able to protest in that way.
“I think the fact that they’re being let off by jury shows you, how can they possibly be terrorists?” she added.
“When a jury trial that looks at all the details of what they’ve actually done says ‘not guilty’, you know?
“That tells you something, doesn’t it, about what a deliberative process of ordinary people can do, and so the fact that they want to both proscribe this and get rid of jury trials, in some cases, tells me that it’s an attack on our freedom.
“So I’m basically here to uphold the right to protest in non violent, disobedient ways.”
Activist Yael Kahn, who used to care for female political prisoners in Gaza before moving to England, told the Press Association: “I wish, when my family was exterminated in the Holocaust by Nazi Germany, I wish there were people protesting like all of these lovely people here.
“I absolutely adore them.”
Ms Kahn stood at the edge of the protest on Saturday with a ribbon that read “free Palestine hostages”.
She added: “The police are not arresting those people who actually, their hands are full, covered in blood, of children, of women, of entire people in the Middle East or West Asia.
“They are not questioning them.”
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