Hundreds gathered in London to protest the war on Gaza on Tuesday, despite calls from U.K. government officials for the rallies to be cancelled. (Pascal Leblond/CBC - image credit)

Hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters, many of them university students, gathered in several U.K. cities on Tuesday, despite a plea from Prime Minister Keir Starmer to call off the marches, which he described as "un-British" for taking place on the second anniversary of the Hamas-led attacks on Israel.

On the campus of King's College London, Palestinian flags waved as organizers on megaphones led the crowd of a few hundred through several chants. They demanded a free Palestine and denounced Israel as a terrorist state.

A few dozen police officers looked on, along with students taking an afternoon break from

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