Activists clashed with anti-riot police in Manila on Saturday (October 5) after they were blocked from holding a demonstration in front of the U.S. embassy in the Philippine capital ahead of the anniversary of the Israel-Gaza conflict.

The protesters later demonstrated several hundred meters from the embassy as they burned a U.S. flag and chanted for the end of the bloodshed in Gaza.

"We are condemning the U.S. for continuing to supply Israel with weapons of mass destruction. The U.S. is responsible for the carnage in Palestine," Bayan Secretary General, Mong Palatino told Reuters.

The latest bloodletting in the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict stems from an attack by Palestinian Hamas militants' Oct. 7, 2023, that killed 1,200 and in which about 250 were taken as hostages, according to Israeli tallies.

Israel's subsequent assault on Gaza has killed over 41,000 Palestinians, according to Gaza's health ministry, and displaced nearly Gaza's entire population, caused a hunger crisis and led to genocide allegations that Israel denies.