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Pro-Palestinian protesters gather near the British Parliament in the latest demonstration in London calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. IMAGES
Protesters rally in Tel Aviv, Israel, to demand the release of hostages abducted by Palestinian militants on October 7 and currently held in the Gaza Strip, amid the ongoing fighting between Israel and Hamas. IMAGES
Protesters rally outside the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem to demand the return of hostages taken by Hamas. Around 1,400 people, mainly civilians, have been killed in Israel in Hamas’s unprecedented attack and more than 240 have been taken hostage, according to Israeli officials. Since then, Israel has relentlessly bombarded Gaza and sent in ground troops in an assault the health ministry in the Hamas-run territory says has killed more than 10,000 people, mostly women and children. IMAGES
At least a hundred protesters are seen inside a building of the US Congress urging lawmakers and Joe Biden's administration to push for a ceasefire in Gaza, which has been under Israeli airstrikes since a deadly Hamas attack. Several protesters are seen being put under arrest. Dressed in black T-shirts emblazoned with the words "Jews say cease fire now" and "Not in our name," the activists sat clapping and singing on the floor in the rotunda of the Cannon House Office building. IMAGES
Several hundred people begin a peaceful demonstration in Paris to demand the regularisation of undocumented migrants, displaying "anti-racism and solidarity" stickers on International Migrants Day. IMAGES
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).