(22 Sep 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
London – 22 September 2025
1. Wide of flag raising ceremony, people clamping
2. Close of Palestinian flag blowing in wind
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3. SOUNDBITE (English) Husam Zomlot, Head of the Palestinian Mission to the United Kingdom:
"To the great people of Britain, the millions who have been marching in the streets, week after week, month after month. Who turned London into the epicenter of the global movement for Palestine. To Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, who chose principles over politics. We thank you. We will always remember how you stood by our side, on the right side of history."
4. Close of pro-Palestinian supporter with flag in her headscarf
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Khalid Abdalla, British actor and pro-Palestinian demonstrator:
"This is the righting of a wrong that is at least 108 years old, since the Balfour Declaration. This is not something that is being given to the Palestinian people, this is something that is their inalienable right. And for over a century we have lived in the depth of how wrong it has been. The ethnic cleansing, and now this genocide, decades of impunity."
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Paris – 22 September 2025
6. Wide of Palestinian flag raised atop Saint Denis city hall in between French and European Union flags with people clapping
7. Wide of people on street clapping
8. Various of Saint-Denis city hall flags blowing in the wind
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9. SOUNDBITE (French) Olivier Faure, Socialist Party leader:
"This flag is not the flag of Hamas. It is the flag of women and men who also have the right to freedom and self-determination. It is the flag of women and men who are martyrs today in Gaza. It is the flag of those who are experiencing a genocide today that we must condemn with all our strength because it is today that we must act. Tomorrow, it will be too late."
10. Various of Saint-Denis city hall flags blowing in the wind
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Saint-Ouen, France – 22 September 2025
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Yonathan Arfi, President of Representative council of French Jewish institutions:
"It’s really worrying and we have a lot of anxiety inside the French Jewish community. People now have doubts about their ability to live in France in the years to come. It’s not general, but many people share this anxiety with us, and we have to show that the French population, the French institutions are with them in order to make sure that people feel reassured."
STORYLINE:
The Palestinian Mission in London held a flag raising ceremony on Monday, after the UK formally recognized Palestinian statehood this weekend, along with Australia and Canada.
The head of the Palestinian mission in Britain, Husam Zomlot, unveiled the flag at a site which will will become the Palestinian embassy in London.
The UK has had a historic role in the politics of the Middle East over the past 100 years, having carved up the region following the defeat of the Ottoman Empire in World War I.
As part of that carve-up, Britain became the governing power of what was then Palestine.
It was also the author of the 1917 Balfour Declaration, which backed the establishment of a “national home for the Jewish people.”
However, the second part of the declaration has been largely neglected over the decades.
It noted “that nothing shall be done, nothing which may prejudice the civil and religious rights” of the Palestinian people.
Faure said this was a flag of a people facing what he labelled as “genocide” and was not a Hamas flag.
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