By New Worker correspondent

Some 600,000 people marched through the heart of the capital on Saturday 17th May, 2025, to mark the outbreak of the first Arab–Israeli war that began with the partition of Palestine and
the establishment of the Zionist State of Israel on 15th May 1948.

Known as the Nakba or Catastrophe, more than 750,000 Palestinian Arabs were uprooted
from their land by armed Zionist gangs and never allowed to return to their homes.

The protest, organised by number of the Palestine solidarity and anti-war movements, saw demonstrators march to Downing Street to call on the Starmer government to “take action to end the ongoing ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from their land”.