A number of people were restrained by police during a snap pro-Palestinian rally in Sydney on Thursday evening.

The unauthorised event, attended by members of the Students for Palestine and Palestine Action Group as part of the global Block Everything movement, was held in response to the interception of a Gaza-bound aid flotilla.

An estimated 400 people gathered in the city centre, and about an hour into the rally protesters spilt onto the light rail tracks on George Street.

Video footage of the event shows protesters lying on the ground in what appears to be an attempt to block traffic.

Footage also shows police restraining people and holding them on the ground.

Officers were then seen trying to clear the area, and some members of the group moved along Bathurst Street in the directi

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