London protest commemorates Palestinian infants killed by Israeli forces
Demonstrators hold baby vests outside the Houses of Parliament as a tribute to Palestinian infants killed in Gaza, in London, UK, on October 29
Baby vests hang outside the Houses of Parliament
Rights organisations project ‘stop arming Israel’ onto London hospital
Three rights organisations have projected a video of British actor Khalid Abdalla recounting accounts from doctors inside Gaza onto the St Thomas’ Hospital in central London to call for ending the UK’s arming of Israel.
“I cannot unsee what I saw. I cannot unhear the screams and the cries that I heard. I cannot unsmell the smell of festering wounds,” Abdallah quoted Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah after he returned to the UK from the enclave.
“It wasn’t just Israel’s planes and tanks. The people he could not save were killed by weapons provided by Western countries, and one of these countries is the United Kingdom.”
Hospitals are under attack in Gaza and the UK is sending the weapons. We must #StopArmingIsreal
To make our message clear, we projected @khalidabdalla sharing testimonies from doctors, outside St Thomas’ Hospital: https://t.co/wrU6pXY8tj pic.twitter.com/WWP5DyvQVN
— Artists for Palestine UK (@Art4PalestineUK) October 30, 2024
UK’s Lammy faces backlash after Gaza ‘genocide’ comments
British SNP politician Chris Law has criticised comments made by Foreign Secretary David Lammy on Monday that he does not believe “genocide” is taking place in Gaza because the number of Palestinians who have been killed so far is too low.
“These are quite properly legal terms that must be determined by international courts. But I do agree that those terms when millions of people lost their lives in crises like Rwanda, the second world war and the Holocaust,” he told the parliament in response to an MP who said terms like “genocide” are being used too freely.
“The way they are used now undermines the seriousness of that term.”
Law, the SNP politician, wrote a letter to the minister saying his comments reveal “blatant contempt for the fundamental rights and the very lives of Palestinians”. He added that “it would not require at least one million Palestinians to be killed for claims of genocide to be taken seriously by the UK government”.
وزير خارجية بريطانيا يرفض توصيف أحداث غزة بالإبادة #حرب_غزة #فيديو pic.twitter.com/d3vQi1JEyk
— الجزيرة فلسطين (@AJA_Palestine) October 30, 2024
