Stop starving Gaza demo held outside 10 Downing Street

Ansar Ahmed Ullah
Contributing Editor,Shottobani

London: Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are starving to death because of Israel’s blockade, which is deliberately used as a weapon of war and genocide.

The world has 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.

These images have been seen by 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.

An emergency demo organised by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign was held on 25 July outside 10 Downing Street to deliver this critical message. Thousands gathered at Downing Street with pots and pans to lay at Keir Starmer’s front door, marking the more than 1,000 who have been murdered while queuing for food. Across the whole of Britain, gatherings were held in local areas for similar protests, calling for urgent action to end Britain’s complicity in Israel’s genocide. Bengalis for Palestine (BfP) members who attended the demonstration included Jalal Rajon Uddin, Akikur Rahman, Nooruddin Ahmed, Soyful Alam, Shafique Ahmed, Fakar Kamal, Joynal Chowdhury, Jamil Ikbal, Abdul Salam Sheikh, Sana Miah, and Rofique Ullah, amongst others, who demanded that Britain should end its complicity in Israel’s genocide.