Thousands of protesters are expected to join a pro-Palestinian march in London, with city police warning demonstrators that anyone deemed to be racist would be arrested at the rally, Reuters reports.

A four-day truce agreed between Israel and Hamas, UK-based Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC), which is organising today’s march, said it was “only a brief and partial respite for the people of Gaza”.

“We want … a permanent ceasefire, which can then lead to a political solution, and that we’re very, very far away from that and our government should be doing much more to make sure that happens,” anti-war activist Lindsey German, who planned to join the rally, told Sky News.