Tens of thousands of people gathered in many of the world's capitals on Saturday to call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. A pro-Israel rally was set to take place in London on Sunday.
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00:00 Tens of thousands of protesters in Europe and beyond staged huge rallies in a global
00:06 day of action against the ongoing war in Gaza.
00:11 In Washington DC, demonstrators voiced their anger towards the position of President Joe
00:16 Biden's administration and called for a halt of US aid to Israel.
00:22 In London, protesters sought to draw attention to the plight of children in the Gaza Strip,
00:27 symbolised by a giant puppet called "Little Amal" which became a human rights emblem in
00:32 2001.
00:35 Over 1700 police officers oversaw the march.
00:41 Elsewhere dozens of family members of the some 130 Israeli hostages still held by Hamas
00:46 militants attended the opening of an art installation in Tel Aviv.
00:51 This underground tunnel seeks to portray the conditions under which captives are being
00:55 held in Gaza.
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