Hundreds of people rallied in central London demanding the British government lift its ban on the activist group Palestine Action, with chants condemning police arrests and the mounting death toll in Gaza.

Gathered in Parliament Square, demonstrators carried Palestinian flags and signs while chanting: “Over 100,000 dead and you are arresting us instead” and “Resisting genocide is not a crime.” Some banners read “I oppose genocide, I support Palestine Action,” “Disarm education,” and “It’s not a crime to act against genocide.”

The protest came after Defend Our Juries, the organising group, said earlier this week that more than 1,000 people had pledged to attend. Metropolitan Police officers made several arrests during the rally, as they did during a similar protest last month in which more than 500 people were detained.

Palestine Action was banned in July under the UK’s 2000 Terrorism Act, a decision that has led to the arrests of hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters for holding signs or showing support for the group.

Pakistan denounced recent Israeli statements signaling an intention to forcibly displace Palestinians, saying such actions violate international law and aim to sabotage regional peace efforts.

The Foreign Ministry said in a statement that “forced displacement and continued expansion of illegal settlements reflect Israel’s disregard for international human rights and humanitarian law. We call upon the international community to play its role in addressing the humanitarian plight of the civilians and to hold Israel accountable.”

Islamabad reaffirmed its “unwavering support” for the Palestinian people and their struggle for self-determination, reiterating its backing for a sovereign, independent Palestinian state based on pre-1967 borders with Al Quds Al Sharif as its capital.

The Israeli army killed 31 Palestinians and injured dozens in Gaza, as six people died of starvation in the blockaded territory, medics said.

Eight people were killed, several others injured in a drone strike on a house in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood of Gaza City, a medical source from Al Ahli Baptist Hospital said. A child was also killed in Israeli artillery shelling in the same neighborhood.

Several civilians were injured, while others remained trapped under the rubble of a house struck by Israeli forces in the Al Nafaq Street of Gaza City, medics said.

Citing the medical sources, the state news agency Wafa said that the Israeli army targeted a house for a Palestinian family in the Shati refugee camp, western Gaza City, killing six and injuring others. An Israeli drone strike on a civilian gathering killed two people on Yarmouk Street in northern Gaza City. Civil defence teams retrieved the body of a Palestinian from the rubble after an Israeli strike in the Zeitoun neighborhood of the same city.

Families flee as Israeli forces expands ground assault and strikes residential towers in the second year of genocide in Gaza.

Mohamed Ali, a member of parliament from the nationalist People’s Movement, told reporters at the headquarters of Tunisia’s journalists’ union that he will take part in the mission “to stand with Palestine” on behalf of Tunisian legislators.

He said parliament has set up a special committee to monitor the flotilla’s progress and respond to any developments. “It is an honor for Tunisia to be the first harbor for figures from around the world committed to freedom to sail toward Gaza,” Ali said. Framing the effort as peaceful but determined, he added: “Our strength is truth, justice and the belief in the justice of Palestine’s cause.”

He urged lawmakers worldwide to establish “an international parliamentary alliance” to confront Israel’s war on Gaza and its blockade of the territory. Ali acknowledged the risks of sailing, saying: “The Israeli occupation is capable of anything, but we are ready to face every possibility in defence of Palestine.”

In a joint statement issued after a meeting of foreign and defence ministers in Tokyo, the two countries urged an immense and unimpeded surge of humanitarian aid to civilians in the besieged enclave.

“We expressed grave concern over the situation in the Middle East, particularly the findings of famine in Gaza, reiterating urgent calls for an immense and unimpeded surge in aid to civilians in need,” the statement said.

The ministers also reiterated their opposition to Israel’s E1 settlement plan, approved last month, which would split the occupied West Bank into two parts, cutting off the northern cities of Ramallah and Nablus from Bethlehem and Hebron in the south and isolating East Jerusalem.

Israeli forces injured three Palestinians and detained 18 others during a series of raids across the West Bank on Saturday, while illegal settlers carried out fresh attacks on farmland and Bedouin communities in the occupied territory.

Local sources said three young men were shot in the town of Nilin, west of Ramallah, after clashes erupted during a military incursion. In the town of Anata, northeast of Jerusalem, large numbers of troops stormed homes and detained at least 16 Palestinians after field interrogations, the Palestinian news agency Wafa reported.

Two others were taken from a taxi at an Israeli checkpoint near Nablus, while forces also carried out searches and set up roadblocks in Hebron, where residents reported property damage and harassment.

Egypt accused Israel of deliberately creating famine in Gaza, urging it to endorse a US-brokered ceasefire proposal accepted by Hamas.

Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty said the situation in Gaza “is not a natural disaster but the result of Israeli policy.” “Starvation is being used as a weapon of war,” he told a press conference in Cairo alongside Philippe Lazzarini, head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA).

Abdelatty said Egypt rejects any attempt to sideline the Palestinian cause and called on Israel to accept the plan put forward by US envoy Steve Witkoff, which Hamas agreed to last month. He blamed Israeli “obstruction and impossible conditions” for blocking progress toward a ceasefire.

Prisoner advocacy group says inmates used as "testing ground" for stun guns and rubber bullets.