Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are starving to death due to Israel’s blockade – a blockade designed specifically to use starvation as a weapon of war and of genocide.
We’ve all seen the haunting images of Palestinian adults and children reduced to skeletons, the exhausted people holding empty pots and pans waiting for any small amount of food aid available, and cruelly, often meeting their deaths this way. Nearly 1,000 Palestinians have been shot to death by Israeli soldiers whilst queuing for food.
We’ve seen these images, and so has every member of the British government. And yet they continue to send weapons to Israel, making every excuse possible to continue supporting Israel’s genocide: a partner in the bombing of hospitals, schools, shelters and homes; an accomplice in the mass starvation of an entire population.
Our message to the British government is simple: end your complicity in Israel’s genocide. Stop starving Gaza. Stop arming Israel now.
This Friday evening, to deliver this urgent message, we need at least 1,000 people to bring pots and pans to Downing Street to leave in front of the Prime Minister’s residence. This will be a solemn event, to honour the lives cut needlessly short by Israel’s cruelty and Britain’s complicity, marking the at least 1,000 who have been shot while queuing for food.
We’re calling on our branches, and supporters across the country to take similar actions this weekend, to confront their local politicians and decision makers with their complicity in these crimes, and to call for them to urgently take action to end Britain’s complicity.
LOCAL ACTIONS
Thursday, 24 July
Hastings: Murial Matters House, TN34 3UY, 6pm
Friday, 25 July
Abergavenny: St. John’s Square, 6pm
Birmingham: Barclays Bank, 79-84 High Street, B4 7TE, 5pm
Bristol: The Fountains, City Centre, 6pm
Cambridge: Addenbrooke’s Roundabout, 6pm
Cardiff: UK Government Building, Central Square, CF10 1EP, 6pm
Chelmsford: Shire Hall, 5.30pm
Coventry: Foleshill Road/Ring Road roundabout (near Eden School), CV1 4FS, 4.30pm
Dorchester: Town Pump, Cornhill, 5.30pm
Durham: Market Place, 5.30pm
Edinburgh: Ian Murray’s office, 31 Minto Street, EH9 2BT, 5pm
Exeter: Bedford Square, High Street, 6pm
Halifax: Crossroads above Town Hall, 5pm
Harrow: Harrow on the Hill Station, 4.45pm
High Wycombe: Church Street, HP11 2DE, 6pm
Leeds: City Square, LS1 2ES, 6pm
Leicester: Central Train Station, London Road, 6pm
Liverpool: Lime Street Station, 5.30pm
London – Hackney: Hackney Town Hall, 6pm
London – Haringey: Hornsey & Friern Barnet Labour Party, 28 Middle Ln, London N8 8PL, 6pm
London – Ilford: Wes Streeting’s office, 12a High View Parade, Woodford Ave., IG4 5EP, 6pm
London – Newham: Stratford Station, 6pm
Merton: Wimbledon Station, 4pm
Milton Keynes: Milton Keynes Central Station, 302 Eldergate, MK9 1LA, 6pm
Newcastle: Newcastle Central Station by Centurion, what3words: wacky.listed.deny, 6pm
Newport: Jessica Morden’s office, Clarence House, NP19 7AA, 6.30pm
Newport (Isle of Wight): Opposite Barclays, 102 St. James Street, PO30 1UP, 4.45pm
Oxford: Carfax Tower, Queen Street, OX1 1ET, 6pm
Peterborough: Waitrose, Bourges Blvd., 4.45pm
Penzance: Bottom of Causewayhead, 12noon
Pontypridd: Alex Davis-Jones’ office, 10 Market St., CF37 2DS, 6pm
Portsmouth: Steven Morgan’s office, 72 Albert Road, Southsea, PO5 2SL, 6pm
Reading: Central Railway Station, RG1 1LZ, 6pm
Sheffield: Sheffield Train Station, Sheaf St., 5pm
Southend-on-Sea: Davis Burton Sampson’s office, 168 Leigh Rd, SS9 1BT, 5.30pm
Slough: Aldi, Farnham Road, SL1 4XB, 6pm
Stroud: Forecourt, 3 George St., GL5 1AE, 6pm
Tunbridge Wells: Town Hall steps, 2pm
Watford: Watford Junction, 6pm
Wolverhampton: Queen St., WV1 1TX, 5pm
Worcester: Cathedral Square, WR1 2QE, 6pm
Worthing: Worthing Hospital, BN11 2DH, 6pm
Saturday, 26 July
Abergavenny: Opposite Waterstones, 4a High St., NP7 5RY,11am
Brighton: Churchill Square, 12pm
Carlisle: Barclays, 33 English St, CA3 8JX, 1pm
Letchworth: Top of Leys Ave., SG6 3EU, 11am
Lincoln: Lincoln Cornhill Speaker’s Corner, 2pm
Ludlow: Castle Square, 11am
Orkney: St. Magnus Cathedral, 1pm
Slough: Meet outside Empire Cinema, SL1 1DD, 11.30am; 12noon departure for march