LIVE: UK activists hold Palestine solidarity protest in London

British human rights activists are due to hold a protest in front of the Israeli embassy in London on Saturday, October 17, to show their support for Palestinians in the occupied Palestinian territories. Violence has escalated in recent week in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories as long-simmering tensions over the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in East Jerusalem, and the continued construction of illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank, have come to a head. At least 30 Palestinians have been kil