(RT-Russia) British and Israeli flags were burned in a huge annual Republican bonfire in Derry, Northern Ireland, as hundreds gathered to watch. Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) has described the bonfire, held on Wednesday, as a hate crime. The bonfire was held in the staunchly Republican area of the Bogside, where in 1972 British soldiers opened fire on a protest, killing 14 people, in an event that came to be known as Bloody Sunday. Alongside the Bogside's murals to the victims of Bloody Sunday are murals adorned with the Palestinian flag. There is a long history of solidarity between the Northern Irish Republicans and Palestinians. This solidarity often sees Republicans burning the Israeli flag alongside the Union Jack.
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