Thousands Call for Gaza Cease-fire in London | VOA News

Thousands of protesters rallied in central London Saturday, calling for a cease-fire in Gaza as Israel mounted a military offensive against Hamas in the Palestinian enclave.

Israeli airstrikes left multiple fatalities across Gaza Saturday, as U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Arab foreign ministers in Jordan seeking a solution for the war-torn area.

Israeli strikes pummeled the enclave, including the south, where Gazans had been urged to seek refuge, Palestinians said. The U.N. Palestinian refugee agency, or UNRWA, told Reuters that a deadly strike on a U.N.-run school in northern Gaza killed at least 15 Gazans and wounded dozens of others.

The al-Fakhoura school in the Jabalia district was housing thousands of evacuees when it was hit, Juliette Touma, director of communications for UNRWA told Reuters.