All out on Saturday 03 August, 12pm, St. Peter’s Square. 300 days of genocide in Gaza! Full arms embargo on Israel now!
While for us 300 days of genocide sound long, for the Palestinians in Gaza it sounds even longer, with each day full of endless stories of loss, destruction, detention, torture, starvation and displacement.
For 300 days people have been carrying their loved ones in white bags, crying over the headless bodies of their children, trying to find food and water and shelter, looking for one another, and living in tents either freezing or burning with heat; and hundreds of prisoners have been held in detention camps being raped and suffering all kinds of horrors at the hands of Israeli soldiers laughing as they practice barbaric crimes.
The Zionist entity has unleashed its full and inherent violence on Palestinians. Slaughter after slaughter and massacre after massacre Israel is operating its murder machinery to do what it does best: ethnically cleanse Palestinians.
While it continues its brutal attacks on Gaza and the rest of Palestine it is also bombing Lebanon, including striking Beirut this evening, and has striked Yemen and threatens to commit more attacks in the region.
What happens in Palestine, the immense suffering of Palestinians, can be traced back to Britain, which insists on continuing paving the way for Israeli crimes. This complicity is over a 100 years too long, and nothing will ever wash the blood off Britain’s hands. But this ends now!
Britain plays a crucial role in the production of the F-35 aircrafts used by Israel to bomb Gaza as we speak. Companies are allowed unlimited and indefinite deliveries of F-35-related exports to Israel. Other than the F-35 jets, British arms sales to Israel reached £18 million in 2023.
Imagine the destruction each aircraft each piece of weaponry can create, and the lives they can wipe out within seconds. The F-35 jets bombing Palestinians would not operate without Britain. This is what complicity looks like, dripping with the blood of over 40,000 people in the last 10 months.
Now is the time to end this ongoing participation of Britain and its arms industry in genocide. We, the people, demand material change, and we will not accept any empty declarations or any partial or weak suspensions of some arms, but a full arms embargo on Israel, and we will not rest until we see one!
As Israel’s brutal attacks on Gaza and the rest of Palestine continue, as well as its attack on Lebanon this evening, we will take to the streets again to express our unwavering solidarity with Palestinians and reaffirm our commitment to resist any complicity happening here on our streets and from inside the halls and chambers of the government.
Join us on Saturday 03 August, 12pm, St. Peter’s Square.
