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Live blog update| Third Intifada

Around 2000 people rally in London in support of Palestinians

Around 2000 demonstrators rallied in support of Palestinians in front of the Israeli Embassy on London's Kensington Hight Street on Satruday.

"In the thousnds, in the millions, we are all Palestinians," chanted the group as they waved Palestinian flags in the air.  

A few public figures, including former MP George Galloway, attended the rally. 

We support the Intifada, not becasue we support violence, but because we are against it, said Galloway. 

The violence of the occupier [Israel] is much worse than that of the occupied [Palestinians], he added. 

While the rally ended peacefully, two demonstrators carrying Hezbollah flags were detained by the London Metropolitan police.

Rally organisers had requested that all participants only carry Palestinian flags.