Pro-Gaza activists face trial over Cenotaph protest

Two pro-Gaza activists who laid flowers a Palestinian flag at the Cenotaph in a protest calling for an arms embargo on Israel have denied criminal damage. Ester Akatwijuka, 20, and Olivia Burnett, 22, spray painted ‘180,000 killed’ on the tarmac in front of the war memorial in central London on 15 July. The women from the protest group Youth Demand also lay flowers in front of the Cenotaph and sat holding signs saying: “Stop arming Israel” and “Never again for…