Pro-Palestinian protester group sprays London weapon manufacturer’s building red
The UK-based Palestine Action group of protesters has sprayed the London headquarters of the Leonardo company for manufacturing weapons used by Israel. “Leonardo supply the Israeli military with Apache fighter jets and parts for their F-35 stealth bombers,” the group said.
Palestine Action had on Friday sprayed and slashed a historical painting of Arthur Balfour, the British lord who as foreign minister signed the 1917 declaration of support for the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine.
BREAKING: Palestine Action spray Leonardo’s London HQ blood red.
Leonardo supply the Israeli military with Apache fighter jets and parts for their F-35 stealth bombers. #StopArmingIsrael pic.twitter.com/5oyjQokl55
— Palestine Action (@Pal_action) March 10, 2024
Palestinian city of Jericho names street after Aaron Bushnell
The occupied West Bank city has named a street after the US airman who set himself on fire outside the Israeli embassy in Washington to protest against the war in Gaza, UK newspaper The Guardian reports. The Guardian quotes the mayor of Jericho, Abdul Karim Sidr, as saying that 25-year-old Aaron Bushnell, who died on February 25, “sacrificed everything” for Palestinians.
“We didn’t know him, and he didn’t know us. There were no social, economic or political ties between us. What we share is a love for freedom and a desire to stand against these attacks [on Gaza],” the mayor said as he unveiled the street sign with a small crowd.
The Jericho Municipality in the West Bank names a street after Aaron Bushnell, the American soldier who self-immolated outside the Israeli embassy in Washington, in solidarity with Gaza and in rejection of the genocide committed by the Israeli occupation with American support. pic.twitter.com/raYNRMiN0f
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) March 10, 2024
Activists create massive pro-Palestine sign in San Francisco
Photographer Chris Mowgli, who goes by @modern_Mowgli on Instagram, has uploaded footage of a giant sign calling for an end to US foreign aid for Israel. According to the photographer, the action was taken by an anonymous group of activists.
The banner was visible to “thousands” of residents of the California city, as well as many taking off from San Francisco’s airport, the post claims.
The administration of US President Joe Biden has so far twice bypassed Congress to urgently send bombs and other munitions to Israel amid the war that has killed more than 31,000 Palestinians, mostly children and women, and left tens of thousands more injured or missing.
Netanyahu orders prison preparations for ‘thousands’ of new arrests
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered his defence, national security and finance ministers to open up space in Israeli prisons in preparation for the arrests of “thousands” more Palestinians this year. T
he office of the prime minister said in a statement that the military and internal security agency Shin Bet have assessed that many more “terrorists” will be arrested in Gaza and Israel will run out of prison space if it doesn’t do something now.
Approximately 4,000 Palestinians have already been arrested since the October start of the war – mostly in Gaza – it said, prompting this “urgent” need for preparations. Israel holds thousands of Palestinians in administrative detention without judicial due process, and the United Nations and others have documented numerous instances of torture in Israeli prisons.
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Israel taking captives’ families to UNSC meeting on October 7 attacks
A delegation led by Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz to New York City will include “dozens” of family members of captives held in Gaza with a mission to get the United Nations to declare Hamas a “terrorist” organisation.
The delegation is departing for the US today, and will take part in Monday’s session of the UN Security Council that is being held at the request of the US, UK and France to discuss a UN review on sexual violence on October 7. The delegation met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu before leaving Israel.
“The hostages’ families will stand beside me in order to remind the UN secretary-general and the entire world: The people of Israel will not tolerate what happened and will not relent until the UN declares Hamas a terrorist organisation,” Katz said.
At the Directive of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Minister of Foreign Affairs Israel Katz: Special delegation of Hostages' families to depart this evening for the UN Security Council Discussion in New York.https://t.co/0DabZGinSp
— Prime Minister of Israel (@IsraeliPM) March 10, 2024
