Videos on various social media platforms showed dozens of police officers attempting to separate demonstrators at High Street Kensington Tube Station as a pro-Palestine rally taking place outside the Israeli embassy started to escalate.
"Israel is at war. We didn't want this war. It was forced upon us in the most brutal and savage way. But though Israel didn't start this war, Israel will finish it," Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in an address to the nation.
In a record mobilisation of troops, Israel mobilised 3,00,000 troops in the last 48 hours, as Israeli retaliation against the deadly Hamas attack entered its third day on Monday.
Israel has refuted all reports claiming that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu received a message a message in advance from Egypt regarding the Hamas attack.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in a strongly worded statement, affirmed that the Israeli retaliation has just begun, and Hamas will go through much "tough and terrible" things, Times of Israel reported.
Calling Hamas a "terror organisation", Lior Haiat, the spokesperson of Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said that the only way to fight the terror group is to make everyone involved in the attack "pay the price".
Communist Party of India (CPI) MP Binoy Viswam wrote a letter to Union External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar regarding the safety and security of Indian citizens stranded in the West Asian region amidst the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas that has assumed very serious dimension
The ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict may "adversely impact" India's iron, steel, fertilizers, and organic chemicals sector, said Sanjeev Agrawal, the newly appointed president of industry body PHDCCI, adding it was important a peaceful resolution is reached for the benefit of everyone.
A day after condemning the "brutal attack" on Israel by the Palestinian militant group Hamas, the Congress on Monday extended support for Palestinians.