A number of bus services have been diverted as a result
Protesters gathered at Platt Fields Park in Fallowfield this morning before marching along Wilmslow Road in Rusholme with Palestine flags and banners. Demonstrators then stopped at the University of Manchester, where students previously set up a Gaza protest camp at Brunswick Park on campus.
Demonstrations have become a weekly occurrence in Greater Manchester over the past five months, amid conflict in the Middle East. Earlier this week, red paint was daubed on and around the historic entrance to the University of Manchester on Oxford Road in a suspected pro-Palestinian protest.
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