Pro-Palestine coalition call on UK government to act against genocide

A coalition of six pro-Palestine groups have today, Wednesday, called on the British government to act against Israel’s three-year genocide. A joint statement issued by the Palestinian Forum in Britain, Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Stop the War Coalition, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, Friends of Al-Aqsa, and Muslim Association of Britain said; “A year on from the UK’s recognition of the State of Palestine, that decision has yet to be matched by action.”

The coalition said after nearly three years into Israel’s continuing genocide in Gaza, Palestinians still face killing, starvation and displacement, while British-funded humanitarian aid remains subject to Israeli restrictions. 

The government, the statement read, “must secure an end to Israeli attacks and unrestricted humanitarian access to Gaza. Across the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, settlement expansion, settler violence and restrictions on Al-Aqsa Mosque continue to intensify — restrictions the government must act to end.”

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It added, “Britain’s commitment to international law cannot be hostage to Israel’s election timetable. Real action means confronting Britain’s own complicity: ending the arms trade with Israel, suspending military and intelligence support that facilitate violations of international law, and stopping British businesses, banks, universities and charities from supporting occupation or settlement activity — starting with a ban on trade connected to Israel’s illegal occupation and comprehensive sanctions on Israel.”

The coalition announced that they are organising a national march on 10th October in central London to mark three years of the ongoing genocide. They called on people across the country to stand together in demanding justice and an end to British complicity in crimes against the Palestinian people. 

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