Manchester, United Kingdom - August 03, 2024

1000s out in Manchester as we stand with the Palestinians who have suffered genocide for 300 days. After over 40000 deaths, 20000 children murdered we demand from Britain the only moral choice - a full arms embargo on Israel.

For 300 days Israel's most powerful weaponry in the Middle East that Britain still supplies - has been unleashed on Gaza's civilian population of mostly children. This is a population that had already been imprisoned by a medieval Israeli blockade for over 17 years.

During these last 300 days all the evidence of such an inhuman slaughter of human beings has been recorded with a new massacre broadcast live every few hours.

As if the suffocating siege wasn't enough, for 300 days they have enforced a starvation on the whole population.

In 300 days Israel has killed 165 journalists, mostly targetted like on Tuesday when Al Jazeera's Ismail al-Ghoul and camerman Rami al-Rifi, who were wearing media vests in their marked press car, was bombed. Ismail hadn't seen his wife and young daughter for 9 months.

For 300 days what is left of Palestinian families have been grieving in tents for their lost loved ones, with traumatised children suffering injury, malnutrition and skin infections.

For 300 days they have been displaced, and displaced again with the elderly and sick in searing heat, pushing them from one scrap of land and rubble to another.

In 300 days a record number of people have been killed in the West Bank as settlers run amok, violently evicting Palestinians from their homes under the protection from Israeli soldiers.

In 300 days from the West Bank to Gaza over 10000 others have been jailed, imprisoned with endless torture including sexual abuse that has killed scores of them.

We must all act for Palestinians when so many in power have not just ducked but have been shamefully complict. We must all act against Israel's 76 years of vile crimes against the Palestinian people.

We will always stand in Manchester against Israel's genocide and we will always stand for Palestinian freedom from Israel's tyranny.