London: Thousands of pro-Palestine demonstrators have marched through central London to protest Donald Trump's proposal for the US to take over the Gaza Strip.

Waving Palestinian flags and brandishing placards saying 'hands off Gaza', several thousand people walked from Whitehall, in Westminster, to the US embassy in Nine Elms, in southwest London.

Protesters also held banners that read 'Stand up to Trump' and 'Trump, Canada is not your 51st state. Gaza is not your 52nd'.

Earlier this month, Trump's suggestion that the US could redevelop the embattled enclave and turn it into the 'Riviera of the Middle East' attracted global condemnation. His proposal aims to resettle Palestinians elsewhere, with no plan for them to return.

'I think it's completely immoral, illegal, impractical and absurd,' 87-year-old Holocaust survivor Stephen Kapos told media. 'You simply cannot deport two million people, especially that the surrounding countries already said that they wouldn't take them, not out of the goodness of their heart but because it would destabilise those countries. So, it's not going to happen but it does a lot of damage simply stating that as an endgame.

The march, organised by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC), was the 24th major pro-Palestinian protest in London since October 7, 2023.

Hamas's attack resulted in the death of at least 1,100 people. In addition, approximately 240 were taken captive. Israel's retaliatory campaign has martyred more than 48,239 people while 111,676 people have been wounded. The Government Media Office has updated its death toll to at least 61,709 people, saying thousands missing under the rubble are now presumed dead.