{"id":24569,"date":"2025-03-08T10:40:33","date_gmt":"2025-03-08T10:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/man-climbs-palace-of-westminster-tower-with-palestinian-flag\/"},"modified":"2025-03-08T10:40:33","modified_gmt":"2025-03-08T10:40:33","slug":"man-climbs-palace-of-westminster-tower-with-palestinian-flag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/man-climbs-palace-of-westminster-tower-with-palestinian-flag\/","title":{"rendered":"Man climbs Palace of Westminster tower with Palestinian flag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fezwLZ\">Emergency services have been called to the Palace of Westminster, where a man has scaled one of the buildings carrying a Palestinian flag.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fezwLZ\">Video shared on social media shows a barefoot man stood on a ledge several metres up Elizabeth Tower, which houses Big Ben.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fezwLZ\">The Met Police said officers were called to the tower at 07:24 GMT on Saturday.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fezwLZ\">&#8220;Officers are at the scene working to bring the incident to a safe conclusion,&#8221; the force said.<!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fezwLZ\">Bridge Street, which is at the north end of Westminster Bridge, is closed to allow the emergency services to deal with the incident, police confirmed.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fezwLZ\">A spokesman for London Fire Brigade (LFB) said they were responding to the incident alongside the police.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fezwLZ\">Crews from Lambeth, Chelsea, Soho and Islington fire stations have been deployed, LFB said.<!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c0kgndd62zlo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emergency services have been called to the Palace of Westminster, where a man has scaled one of the buildings carrying a Palestinian flag. Video shared on social media shows a barefoot man stood on a ledge several metres up Elizabeth Tower, which houses Big Ben. The Met Police said officers were called to the tower [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24570,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[8972,6969,417,7374,6145,5028,8973],"class_list":["post-24569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-england","tag-climbs","tag-flag","tag-man","tag-palace","tag-palestinian","tag-tower","tag-westminster"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24571,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24569\/revisions\/24571"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}