More than three hundred British personalities, including pop star Dua Lipa and actor Benedict Cumberbatch, called Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Thursday, May 29 to suspend weapons exports to Israel and help get a stop the fire in Gaza.
“We urge you to take immediate measures to end the complicity of the United Kingdom in the horrors in Gaza,” wrote the authors of the letter, also signed by singer Annie Lennox, the artist Tracey Emin, actors Riz Ahmed, Tilda Swinton and Noomi Rapace.
“We ask you to immediately suspend all sales and exports licenses of British weapons to Israel, to use all the means available to guarantee total humanitarian access to Gaza to experienced organizations without military interference, to commit to the children of Gaza to negotiate a cessation of immediate and permanent cessation and finish the famine”, you can read in this gallery, also signed with actress Nicola COUGHN (((((Bridgerton), Director Danny Boyle or the mass attack group.
“The words will not save the lives of the Palestinian children who are killed, the words will not fill their empty stomach. We now need Keir Starmer’s action,” urge Josie Naughton, co -founder of the Association for Refugee Aid chooses love, at the initiative of this letter.
First measures taken
The labor manager called the “intolerable” situation in Gaza as “intolerable”, denouncing the intensification in mid -May of the Israeli offensive in this Palestinian territory. The British government has suspended its negotiations for a free trade agreement with Israel and summoned to the ambassador of this country in the United Kingdom.
London suspended in September 2024 about thirty weapons export licenses in Israel, referring to a “risk” that they are used in violation of international law in Gaza.
The NGOs have initiated legal actions to affirm that this prohibition extends to exports of pieces made in the United Kingdom that equips the US f-35 hunters used by Israel.
Humanitarian aid block for life
On Tuesday, some 380 writers from the United Kingdom and Ireland, including Zadie Smith and Ian Mcewan, denounced a “genocide” in Gaza, demanding the immediate and without food distribution of food and medical aid by the UN, as well as a high fire.
Israel, who firmly rejects the accusations of genocide, partially raised the total blocking of the aid imposed on the Gaza Strip since March 2, officially to force Hamas to free their last hostages last week.
In response to the bloody and unprecedented attack on October 7, 2023, in southern Israel, by Hamas Commands infiltrated in the Gaza Strip, which left 1,218 dead, the vast majority of civilians, the Israeli army has been leading an offensive to this dismissal, hungry and devastated Palestinian territory for more than 19 months.
More than 54,084 Palestinians, mainly civil, were killed by the Israeli retaliation campaign, according to data from the Hamas Ministry, considered reliable by the UN.
Source: BFM TV
