{"id":624963,"date":"2026-06-06T20:58:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T20:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/624963\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T20:58:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T20:58:14","slug":"scarva-police-operation-under-way-as-counter-protests-take-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/624963\/","title":{"rendered":"Scarva: Police operation under way as counter protests take place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is understood the pro-Palestinian marchers were stopped by police on the outskirts of the village. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Several bridges across the canal were closed, as was access to some roads in the area. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">DUP MP for Upper Bann Carla Lockhart was in Scarva and described the policing operation as &#8220;very heavy-handed&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There were water cannons brought in, there were movements from TSG (tactical support group) which only sought to highlight tensions so we were able to intervene and get that de-escalated and the parade passed along the towpath with no incident,&#8221; she said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;That took a significant piece of work and I want to commend the community who were here protesting because they&#8217;re angry at this parade, they&#8217;re angry at what it stands for and the political nature of it.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It is understood the pro-Palestinian marchers were stopped by police on the outskirts of the village. Several bridges&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":624964,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-624963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=624963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}