Of the 492 arrested, the youngest is 18 and the oldest 89, reports Sky News with reference to the London police. It is unclear how many of them were subsequently released.
The demonstrators at London's Trafalgar Square protested against Israel's warfare in Gaza and the government's ban on the movement Palestine Action, which was terrorist-stamped in the UK this summer. The ban - condemned by critics as an attack on freedom of speech - came after activists from the group broke into the country's largest military base and vandalized two fighter jets.
Many of Saturday's demonstrators were elderly, according to British media. Among those arrested are a 79-year-old daughter of a Holocaust survivor and an 83-year-old Anglican priest, according to the organizing organization Defend Our Juries.
Saturday's protest has been criticized by government representatives and Jewish organizations for taking place too close to the fatal attack on a synagogue in Manchester on Thursday.
