Skip to main content
More than 200,000 march through London as towns and cities across Britain mark Nakba Day
People take park in a Nakba 76 pro-Palestine demonstration and march in London to mark the mass displacement of Palestinians in 1948, referred to as the Nakba, May 18, 2024

MORE than 200,000 Palestine supporters marched through London on Saturday as protests in towns and cities across Britain marked Nakba Day.

The national day of action was the 76th anniversary of the ethnic cleansing of 750,000 Palestinians from their homes and their land to create the state of Israel.

Edinburgh saw its biggest Palestine protest ever with 10,000 mobilising.

The 95th Anniversary Appeal
Support the Morning Star
You have reached the free limit.
Subscribe to continue reading.
Similar stories
Palestinian students walk to school along a fence separating their village from a nearby illegal Israeli settlement of Carmel, which forces them to take an alternative route nearly twice as long, near the West Bank village of Umm al-Khair, April 14, 2026
Middle East / 17 April 2026
17 April 2026

Bezalel Smotrich’s measures to extend Israeli property law into the West Bank are a continuation of a decades-long project to dispossess Palestinians and preclude statehood, argues HUGH LANNING