Never, during the many months of protest on the capital's streets, have the two sides - so ideologically far apart - been so physically close. Tom Cheshire spoke to protesters from both camps and found there is unlikely to be an end to the visceral hostility between them for some time.
When the pro-Palestinian marchers came round the corner of the Strand in London, drums beating and megaphones blaring, they saw a row of Israeli flags. The boos were loud and there were plenty of obscene gestures. Both sides chanted 'shame on you' at each other, with the police standing between them. The pro-Palestinian protesters shouted 'From the River to the Sea', along with the other chants. Those who defend the slogan say it is a simple call for freedom.
Nearly 33,000 Palestinians have now been killed in Gaza since the start of the conflict, according to the Hamas-run health ministry there, which does not distinguish between civilians and combatants - although the majority of those killed have been women and children, the ministry says. Some 1,200 people, mostly Israelis, were killed when Hamas rampaged into southern Israel on 7 October and kidnapped some 250 others.
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