The protest comes days after the prime minister said the UK government could consider pursuing more curbs on protest laws, including targeting some of the chants used at pro-Palestinian demonstrations.
Sir Keir Starmer said he wanted to “go further” than the measures announced a week prior, granting police forces broader powers to restrict repeat protests.
He had separately called for such protests to be postponed after the terror attack at a synagogue in Manchester last week, which killed two Jewish people – urging demonstrators to “respect the grief of British Jews”.
However, demonstrations in support of the Palestine Action group did go ahead last week, with nearly 500 people arrested in central London.
The Met said 488 of the arrests were for supporting a proscribed organisation, with the youngest person held being 18 and the oldest 89.
The Israeli military launched a campaign in Gaza in response to the Hamas-led attack on southern Israel on 7 October 2023, in which about 1,200 people were killed and 251 others were taken hostage.
Since then, more than 67,000 Palestinians have been killed, including more than 18,000 children, the Hamas-run health ministry says.