Tens of thousands of demonstrators will gather in London this Saturday 15 March to demand an end to Israel’s siege of Gaza and continuing violations of international law. It is, of course, the latest Palestine march.
Israel: war crime after war crime
Israel has cut off electricity and all external supplies of aid to 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza since March 2nd , including food, potable water and medicine. The UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Michael Fakhri, has described these actions as “the fastest starvation campaign in modern history.”
Deliberately starving Gaza violates the International Court of Justice’s orders in January 2024 to prevent genocide.
Israel has also continued to mount attacks in Gaza despite the agreed ceasefire, killing more than 150 Palestinians since 19 January 2025. Before blocking all aid it allowed only restricted supplies that did not meet the ceasefire requirements. It has also refused to engage in negotiations for the agreed second phase of the ceasefire.
At the same time, Israel has ramped up attacks on occupied Palestinian territory in the West Bank, destroying infrastructure and laying siege to refugee camps. Israeli soldiers and settlers have attacked Palestinians in their homes and on the streets, killing more than 100 people including children, as well as displacing 40,000 people according to the UN.
The reaction of the British government to these events has been shamefully subdued. The UK remains complicit in Israel’s actions through the supply of weapons as well as providing diplomatic and military support.
Palestine march: we continue
You can find all the details of the march here.
Ben Jamal, Palestine Solidarity Campaign Director, said:
The genocide in Gaza has not ended. It continues by other means – by blocking supplies which are essential to human life. Israel’s desire to ethnically cleanse and colonise Gaza has not disappeared, it remains a clear and present danger, which is now evident in the West Bank also. These are grave crimes in international law – genocide, ethnic cleansing, starvation, occupation – and Israel’s Prime Minister remains a fugitive from justice as he evades the warrant for arrest issued by the International Criminal Court.
In these circumstances we might expect that a democratic government that adheres to the rule of law would refuse to be complicit with these crimes and indeed to take active steps to end their commission.
But shamefully the UK Government continues to believe it can be a key ally of Israel, providing military, diplomatic and financial support, whilst also pretending to abide by international law. This charade fools no one and MPs in Parliament that have called for a full scale inquiry into this country’s complicity in one of the greatest crimes of our time are right to do so. One day there will be accountability and it will implicate UK politicians and officials.
Featured image via the Canary
