Hizbollah flags were on display in London last Sunday as around 600 protesters gathered for the annual anti-Israel Al-Quds Day march.

Police did not act to prevent the protesters displaying the colours of the organisation - whose military wing is defined as a terrorist group by the UK government - and made no arrests.

Approximately 500 pro-Israel activists mounted a counter-demonstration, with some chanting "Shame! Shame! Shame!" and "Terrorist scum: off our streets" when the Al-Quds Day marchers collected outside the United States embassy in Grosvenor Square.

Pro-Palestinians distributed placards accusing Israel of genocide, with one banner reading: "Dismantling of Zionist State = End Of Bloodshed." One man carried a homemade sign which said: "Israel is a cancer. We are the cure."

In contrast, pro-Israel demonstrators handed out their own banners proclaiming "Peace Not Hate".

Forty police officers used fences and a barricade to keep the two groups of protesters apart.

Matthew Offord, Conservative MP for Hendon, Simon Johnson, chief executive of the Jewish Leadership Council, and Board of Deputies President Jonathan Arkush were among those taking part in the the counter-demonstration, which was organised by Sussex Friends of Israel, Zionist Federation and Israel Advocacy Movement.

Mr Offord said he had been threatened online by anti-Israel activists who warned him not speak at the rally.

Mr Johnson said he wanted to draw attention to the fact that "on a sunny Sunday afternoon people feel that they can wave the flag of a recognised terrorist group in public."

Mr Arkush condemned the Al-Quds Day march as a "hate fest".