LONDON (AFP) – Angry demonstrators hurled missiles at riot police outside the Israeli embassy in London on Saturday as a protest against the Jewish state's offensive in the Gaza Strip turned ugly. Demonstrators pushed over the barricades outside the embassy in Kensington, while a gang tried to force entry to the embassy road from the other end. Some threw sticks and stones at officers and police in riot gear and on horseback charged the crowd to keep them back, while protesters hurled a crash barrier through the window of a Starbucks coffee shop. Organisers hoped that 100,000 people would attend the rally, which began in Hyde Park before progressing to the Israeli embassy. An early police estimate put the crowd figure at 12,000.
-- Posted By Breaking News to Break News at 1/10/2009 11:03:00 PM
