Our letter to the FCDO on Israel's terrifying escalation of violence in northern Gaza. 400,000 people are trapped, massacres are committed daily.
This is the 5th letter we have sent in recent weeks - we are yet to receive a response or acknowledgement of these horrors. 1/3
For the past year, millions of us around the world have made repeated, desperate calls for a ceasefire. We demanded an end to the genocide. We warned of a disastrous regional conflict.
We were ignored.
Governments have fuelled the machinery of war. Their indifference to human life has destroyed prospects for peace and endangered us all.
All of this violence was entirely avoidable. Without urgent de-escalation, more unimaginable horror is on the horizon.
It’s time to listen to the voices of ordinary people across the globe calling for peace.
That means ending the root cause of this appalling cycle of violence: the occupation of Palestine.
UK polls show that:
• 84% of the public think Netanyahu should be arrested if he comes to the UK
• 67% think Israel has committed war crimes
• 56% support blocking all arms sales to Israel
The British public are on the right side of history. Our political leaders are not.
Award-winning actor Juliet Stevenson releases the film ‘Every day a new atrocity’, calling on the UK gov’t to stop supplying the israelis more arms https://t.co/1975Sh0oyb
The world could have stopped the genocide in Gaza.
Instead, our political leaders allowed Israel to act with total impunity.
That is why they are now murdering hundreds of civilians in Lebanon, putting millions more lives across the region at risk.
When will our government wake up to the horrors they have normalised? When will they call out this reckless aggression? Or do Arab lives not matter?
We need a full arms embargo to Israel and economic sanctions, now. Our common humanity demands nothing less.
Israel's delusion that it can cover up its ethnic cleansing of Palestinians under a veil of smoke and fire descending upon the region is enabled by Europe's and America's complicity. The carnage is on us: Americans, Europeans, Australians, Canadians...
Humanitarian organisations have projected “SUSPEND ALL ARMS TO ISRAEL” onto iconic buildings and mobile vans across Liverpool as thousands gather in the city for the annual Labour Party Conference.
Since the start of Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza, many of us warned of an all-out regional war.
56% of the British public support a full arms embargo against Israel. That’s what the UK government needs to implement immediately.
@cerysmatthews I immediately wanted to send this to you, sadly knowing you could never, would never, broadcast it on your show that I have loved for over a decade, and dreaming that you could and you would.
⚠️ Social media global day of action.
Ahead of the UNGA debate, pressure your gov now to respect its duties under int'l law and #SanctionIsrael. Palestinian lives depend on it, and so does the relevance of int'l law!
https://t.co/4FxHDKDqTN
Israel is massacring thousands of Palestinian children. Use @PSCupdates online action to demand your MP calls for an immediate end to the arms trade with Israel! https://t.co/fiTfUoE0Ed
Take action to demand the UK government support the Palestinian resolution to the UNGA on enacting the ICJ's ruling that Israel's occupation and apartheid must end. Write to the Foreign Secretary using @PSCupdates online action https://t.co/FE0NS1MEpY
🚨EMERGENCY PROTEST - Hands off Gaza - Stop Arming Israel
⏰ Weds 11 September, 6PM
📍Downing St, London
This morning, genocidal Israel once again bombed the Al Mawasi refugee camp, killing at least 40 Palestinians
Join the protest tomorrow to demand our govt #StopArmingIsrael