One of New South Wales ’ most senior police officers has told a court that a proposed pro-Palestine march to the Sydney Opera House has “disaster written all over it” due to “significant” safety concerns.

Representatives from the Palestine Action Group and Jews Against Occupation are in the NSW court of appeal fighting the police over the proposed march from Hyde Park to the Sydney landmark this Sunday.

Last week, the group announced its plan to diverge from the normal route of its nearly weekly rallies over the past two years to mark two years since the October 7 attacks and call for “an end to genocide in Gaza”. But on Friday the NSW police announced it would knock back the group’s application to march to the Opera House.

The court of appeal, which inherited the case on Tuesday fr

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