Police arrest Youth Demand activists as hundreds of thousands take part in huge Gaza march - Police remove counter-protesters holding placards reading ‘we stand with Britain's Jews’ from the crowd

LONDON (Reuters) -Opponents of Israel's actions in Gaza held protests on Tuesday in a number of cities on the second anniversary of the Hamas attacks that triggered the war, despite denunciations by politicians who said such marches risked glorifying violence.

Police officers were “attacked with projectiles” and “assaulted” during far-right anti-immigration protests in London on Saturday, the British capital’s force said, as more than 110,000 people took to the city’s streets.

London police arrested hundreds of protesters for supporting a banned pro-Palestinian group at a demonstration on Saturday which went ahead despite requests to call it off after a deadly attack at a synagogue in Manchester.

Universities risk being fined over pro-Palestine protests, the higher education watchdog has warned. Professor Arif Ahmed, the freedom of speech director at the Office for Students (OfS), told universities that the watchdog was “prepared to act” in response to pro-Palestine protests on Tuesday.

Protesters calling for an end to the use of asylum hotels gathered in central London today. The protest, dubbed the "pink ladies" protest, called for the protection of women and children, amid what they see as a spate of attacks involving asylum seekers.