Pro-Palestinian protesters have chanted “from London to Gaza, we’ll have an intifada”, footage of a rally in the capital shows.

Demonstrators following a flag on Saturday which read “Fight for Revolution” were chanting the call for an “intifada”.

The term has often been interpreted as referring to violent uprisings by Palestinians against the state of Israel.

In a clip posted on social media, a man with a loud hailer led the chant: “From London to Gaza, we’ll have an intifada.”

It comes as tens of thousands of pro-Palestinian protesters gather in central London calling for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war.

Organisers say they anticipate numbers exceding last week’s record demonstration where police estimated around 100,000 people joined the march, although protesters claimed the real figure was in the region of 300,000.

Police have said they again anticipate about 100,000 at the latest march. There are similar rallies being held in Manchester and Glasgow.

Chant a reference to Palestinian uprisings

The intifada chant is a reference to two uprisings by Palestinians of both the West Bank and Gaza Strip aimed at ending Israel’s occupation of those territories to create an independent Palestinian state.

The first intifada began in 1987 and ended six years later with a framework for peace negotiation which eventually fell through. The second took place in 2000 and is generally thought to have ended about five years later. It is estimated the two uprisings culminated in the deaths of more than 5,000 Palestinians and 1,400 Israelis.

Protesters at the London march were also filmed chanting “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free”, despite controversy around the slogan’s meaning.

A Socialist Worker stall was still handing out a booklet which praised Hamas’s “military struggle” against Israel and claimed the group, classified as a terrorist organisation by the UK Government, was in fact a “resistance movement” which the authors “unconditionally” supports.

CPS should not get involved in ‘political discussions’

Saturday’s rally comes a day after Max Hill, KC, the head of the Crown Prosecution Service CPS, told the Telegraph that calling for jihad is not automatically a criminal offence.

He said that while prosecutors and police “absolutely understand the anxiety that everybody has on all sides in relation to things that have been said and done during the protests” the CPS should not get involved in “political discussions”.