Posted: 25th August 2024
Schools, refugee camps, and a busy market have all this week been considered legitimate targets for Israel’s unrelenting war machine. Palestinians are facing bombardment from the air, shooting from the sea, and shelling on the ground with images of burned and decapitated children becoming a regular occurrence on our social media feeds.
In the face of such unrelenting brutality we cannot afford to allow our voices to be quietened. Join us on Saturday 7th September at 12PM in Central London as we march once again to call for action to bring pressure to secure an immediate and permanent ceasefire, including a ban on all arms sales to Israel.
Join us for our following national march where we will be taking our demands directly to the Labour Government at their party conference in Liverpool at 12PM on Saturday 21st September.
Over 40,000 Palestinians have now been killed in Israel’s genocide. The supposed ‘safe zones’ are facing repeated attacks and evacuation orders are forcing already displaced civilians into increasingly overcrowded and uninhabitable shelters.
And now, the people of Gaza are on the brink of another crisis. Polio has returned for the first time in 25 years, posing an unimaginable threat to all of Gaza’s children of paralysis and death. Its outbreak in Gaza is a direct result of Israel’s destruction of Gaza’s health and sanitation infrastructure.
40 agencies and medical professionals from around the world, including Save the Children, have called for an immediate ceasefire to allow for the vaccination of Gaza’s children, and yet still Israel’s bombing continues.
President Biden’s face-saving claims of a ceasefire deal being close ring hollow when Netanyahu repeats time and again his unwillingness to end his genocidal assault on the people of Gaza. Will you join us on Saturday 7 September to tell the world that warm words are not enough and that we need a ceasefire NOW?
Despite claims during the election campaign of being a break from the past, our Labour government has not taken any real practical steps to end the UK’s complicity in Israel’s genocide. We continue to sell arms to Israel, and we continue to provide political cover for their daily war crimes.
Our politicians must know that they cannot hide from accountability for their complicity or run away from their obligations under international law. We need to show them that we are not going away until we have a ceasefire, and an end to all UK complicity with Israel’s system of apartheid, beginning with an immediate ban on all arms sales to Israel.
Can you help us take these demands directly to the Labour Government at their party conference in Liverpool on Saturday 21st September?
In the darkest hours for the Palestinian people, the solidarity of those who have marched and campaigned across the world has been a shining light.
From London to Liverpool our message is clear – we will never stop campaigning until Palestine is free.
In solidarity,
Simon Foster
PSC Deputy Director