Day: October 19, 2023
Greta Thunberg has been charged with a public order offence after her arrest during a Fossil Free London protest, the BBC reports.
The 20-year-old is accused of breaching a Section 14 order that police put in place outside the InterContinental Hotel on Park Lane, where oil executives were meeting on Tuesday.
The climate change activist was among protesters who gathered to object to an Energy Intelligence Forum event.
In total, 27 protesters were arrested and 26 charged, the Met Police said.
Ms Thunberg, a Swedish national, has been released on bail with a trial set for 15 November.
In a conflict already freighted with allegations of war crimes, a strike on a Gaza City hospital on Tuesday has divided opinion, set back hopes for a diplomatic end to fighting and deepened global anguish over the prospect of more civilian deaths.
The early evening blast at the al-Ahli Hospital killed 471 and injured more than 300, a spokesman for Gaza’s Ministry of Health, Ashraf al-Qudra, told The Washington Post. Israel has disputed that death toll.
Palestinian and Israeli officials blame each other for the blast, which was the single deadliest incident for civilians in Gaza since the war began, coming 10 days after Hamas’s Oct. 7 cross-border attack on Israel.