Pro-Palestinian demonstrations demanding an end to arms shipments to Israel were held on Saturday in major cities around the world as the current round of Palestine-Israel conflict approaches its first anniversary.
Tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets in London on Saturday, calling for an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and an end to the ever-escalating conflicts in the Middle East.
They also asked British Prime Minister Keir Starmer to stop all arms trade with Israel.
"Stop providing them with the means to commit genocide, stop being complicit in a genocide. They need to stop all arms [deliveries], and sanctions, just like they would do on any other country," said Joseph, a protester.
Demonstrators also rallied in support of Palestine in Paris, Rome, Berlin, Madrid, Barcelona and Cape Town on the day, demanding an end to violence in Gaza and the wider Middle East and protesting arms deliveries to Israel by Western countries.
The Palestinian death toll from the ongoing Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip had risen to 41,825, Gaza-based health authorities said in a statement on Saturday.
The statement said 96,900 others had been injured by Israeli attacks since the current round of the conflict broke out on October 7, 2023.
Rallies worldwide protest arms supplies to Israel
The national railway system has handled 105 million passenger trips since the National Day holiday railway travel boom started on Sept. 29, according to China State Railway Group Co., Ltd (China Railway), the country's railway operator.
The national railway handled over 17 million passenger trips per day from Sept. 30 to Oct. 4, and the number also reached over 21.44 million on Oct. 1, setting a new single-day record.
From Sunday to Tuesday, the national railway will witness a peak in return trips, with relatively concentrated passenger flows in Beijing to Shanghai, Chengdu to Xi'an, Guangzhou to Nanning, Dalian to Shenyang, Wuhan to Changsha, and other sections.
China Railway Beijing Bureau planned to add 102 pairs of passenger trains on Sunday, mainly to cities including Shanghai, Shenyang, Taiyuan, Xi'an, and Shijiazhuang.
China Railway Zhengzhou Bureau planned to operate 1,358 passenger trains and added 126 temporary passenger trains on the same day, of which more than half are high-speed trains to major cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, and Hangzhou.
The Wuhan bureau of China Railway is expected to send about one million passengers on Sunday, and has added 211 temporary trains along the routes linking places such as Hankou, Yichang and Shiyan in central China's Hubei Province.
The Xi'an bureau also deployed additional trains to Beijing, Shanghai, and major cities of surrounding provinces, and 80 percent of which were EMU trains.
The Guangzhou bureau planned to add 118 high-speed night trains from Sunday evening to Monday morning, and the Nanchang bureau also added 32 night trains along routes departing from Nanchang City and Fuzhou City.
According to the Ministry of Transport, the traffic volume on national highways continued to remain high at about 61 million vehicles on Sunday, and road networks around cities such as Guangzhou, Shanghai, Changsha and Suzhou are expected to see heavy traffic volume.
According to data from the flight travel app Umetrip, the national civil aviation sector has also begun to enter return trip peak, expecting to handle over 17,000 domestic flights and more than 2,600 flights on inbound and outbound routes on Sunday, and the number of civil aviation passengers nationwide is expected to exceed 2.3 million.
China's railway system handles 105 million passenger trips during National Day holiday
