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| Tower Hamlets, Palestine Flag |
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Drivers
parked cars and honked horns shouting 'Free
free Palestine'
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Cars
blocking Blackwall tunnel in east London were graffitied with 'Gaza'
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Tunnel
connects Greenwich with Muslim community of Tower Hamlets
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Came
days before Tower Hamlets mayor
raised Palestine flag at town hall
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Tory
councillor in area warns community is 'being
radicalised'
Protesters filmed themselves blocking a
London road with dozens of parked cars as they called for Israel to relinquish
its grip on Gaza amid concerns the community is becoming 'radicalised'
Drivers parked their cars, honked their
horns and shouted 'free free Palestine', bringing the major commuter route in
east London to a standstill.
Local councillors claim the footage is
the latest cause for concern that the community is becoming 'radicalised' and
'one-sided'.
The demonstration took place on July 20
in the Blackwall tunnel which connects Greenwich in south London with Tower
Hamlets, an east London borough with a large Muslim population, police
confirmed.
The footage of parked cars covered in Palestinian
flags and the word 'Gaza' emerged on YouTube early this week and has been
shared on Facebook more than 6,000 times.
It is unclear how long the tunnel
remained blocked during the incident.
It came just days before Tower
Hamlets's Muslim mayor sparked outrage by raising the Palestinian flag outside
the town hall.
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