PALESTINE supporters took to the streets in more than 40 towns and cities at the weekend, renewing calls for an immediate ceasefire and an end to genocide in beleaguered Gaza.

In Manchester one group of protesters roped themselves together to symbolise Palestinians suffering in Israeli prisons. 

In London a protest took place outside the US embassy, while many centres saw Barclays branches targeted in protest at the bank’s investments in arms firms supplying Israel.

Campaign groups are also preparing for the next Palestine national demonstration in London on April 27.

The Palestine Solidarity Campaign made an appeal for funds to cover the cost of next Saturday’s national protest in London.

Campaign director Ben Jamal said: “For the first time since we began marching in October, we have managed to secure Hyde Park as a venue. 

“We need to make this one of our largest demonstrations, so that the vast area of the park is filled and the image of hundreds of thousands of people of conscience is beamed across the world and seen by our brothers and sisters in Palestine.”

The solidarity campaign needs to raise £40,000 to fund Saturday’s London protest. Marchers should assemble at noon in Parliament Square, to march to Hyde Park.

Government sources insisted that Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley’s job is not under threat after he came under pressure to resign.

He faced calls to quit over his force’s handling of pro-Palestinian protests after an officer was filmed describing an anti-semitism campaigner as “openly Jewish.”

Video footage showed another officer telling Gideon Falter, the chief executive of the Campaign Against Anti-semitism (CAA), he would be arrested if he did not leave the vicinity of a Gaza protest in central London as his presence was “antagonising.”