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  • 18 MAIO 2024
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Khan calls police commissioner after incident with Israeli activist

London Mayor Sadiq Khan has today called an urgent meeting with the Metropolitan Police Commissioner after an officer was filmed calling a Jewish activist a "f****** Jew" during a pro-Palestinian protest in the capital.

Khan calls police commissioner after incident with Israeli activist
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Sources quoted by Sky News said the London mayor retains "full confidence" in Commissioner Mark Rowley, although UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is said to be "furious" about what happened.
The meeting will see Khan and the Met Commissioner discuss "community relations" in the wake of the incident, which happened exactly a week ago. The activist involved is Gordon Falter, chief executive of the Campaign Against Antisemitism, and in the footage released a police officer can be seen stopping him from crossing a road during a pro-Palestinian demonstration. "You're clearly Jewish," the officer tells Falter, who was wearing a traditional kippah. "This is a pro-Palestinian march. I'm not accusing you of anything but I'm just a bit concerned about the reaction you might get," he adds. Falter, who replied that he was simply on his way to a synagogue, was threatened with arrest if he did not move on. In the Gaza Strip, Israel has been waging war against the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas since militants from the movement - which has been in power in Gaza since 2007 and is designated a terrorist organisation by the US, the EU and the UK - launched an unprecedented rocket attack on Israeli territory on 7 July last year. The attack killed 1,163 people, most of them civilians, and 250 hostages, about 130 of whom remain captive and 34 are believed to have died, according to the latest figures from the Israeli authorities. The war to "eradicate" Hamas, which today entered its 198th day and continues to threaten to spread throughout the Middle East, has so far killed 34,079 people in the Gaza Strip, injured more than 76,200 and left thousands missing, presumed buried in the rubble, most of them civilians, according to updated figures from the local authorities. The conflict has also displaced almost two million people, plunging the overcrowded and impoverished Palestinian enclave into a serious humanitarian crisis, with more than 1.1 million people in a "catastrophic hunger situation" that is already claiming victims - "the highest number ever recorded" by the UN in food security studies worldwide. In the West Bank and East Jerusalem, territories occupied by the Jewish state, at least 482 Palestinians have been killed since 7 October by Israeli forces and in attacks carried out by settlers, in addition to more than 3,000 injuries and almost 7,000 arrests. The Jewish settlements in the West Bank, where more than 490,000 Israelis live - and which continue to expand - are all illegal under international law.
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