Cease the Bloodbath in Gaza – Sat 26 Jul 2014.
Following quite a lot of incidents which had led to rising pressure between Israel and Hamas, the Israeli Protection Forces (IDF) launched a full-scale floor invasion of the Gaza Strip on seventeenth July 2014 which continued till fifth August, with a ceasefire being introduced on twenty sixth August.
Through the weeks of the assault over 2,000 Palestinians have been killed, round 70% of them civilians, and over 10,000 critically injured. 67 Israeli troopers and 5 civilians have been killed and 730 Israelis injured. Horrible as these numbers have been, they appear small in comparison with the present genocide going down in Gaza.
Israel additionally systematically destroyed many properties. Wikipedia states “The UN estimated that greater than 7,000 properties for 10,000 households have been razed, along with a further 89,000 properties broken, of which roughly 10,000 have been severely affected by the bombing.”
On twenty sixth July 1000’s of individuals had arrived for a rally on Kensington Excessive Avenue, as shut as protests have been allowed to the Israeli Embassy. Police tried laborious to maintain visitors flowing on what is among the principal routes out of London to the West, however quickly the variety of individuals made this unattainable.
I’d arrived early and was in a position to get to the stage the place there have been to be a number of speeches earlier than the march moved off. From this platform I may see the highway filled with individuals trying each west and east.
I listened to a number of the speeches and photographed a number of of the audio system, together with Labour veteran Walter Wolfgang and Owen Jones earlier than making my approach with some problem to entrance of the group round 100 yards east down the packed highway the place the principle banners have been prepared for the beginning of the march.
Fortuitously I used to be in a position to be a part of with a bunch of those that had been across the stage, together with a number of the audio system, who have been going by the group which was extraordinarily tightly packed all throughout the highway. By the point I arrived the realm in entrance of the march had been cleared and I used to be solely in a position to take photos of the entrance of the march by leaning over the arms of the stewards because the march began.
Behind the entrance of the march I used to be in a position to enter the march and take some photos as I walked again in the other way in direction of the tube station.
Among the many banners on the marchwas one carried by the Turkey Youth Union: ‘TURKISH GOVERNMENT SUPPLIES JET FUEL TO ISRAEL – ERDOGAN RESIGN’. A lot of that oil was coming from ISIS, who have been largely financed by their oil gross sales smuggled by Turkey with the assistance of main members of the Turkish authorities.
I’d left the march to {photograph} an unconnected occasion going down at Downing St, and walked up from there to satisfy the Gaza marchers as they changed into Whitehall.
The march paused for a short time reverse Downing St, however stewards once more made taking pictures tough, though the marchers – together with Jeremy Corbyn – have been reasonably extra cooperative.
When the entrance of the march reached Parliament Sq. one of many stewards who recognised me truly invited me into the realm in entrance of the march to take photos, and I used to be in a position to {photograph} the marchers with ‘Massive Ben’ within the background – all the time an excellent clue that this was going down in London.
I then photographed the lengthy rally, taking photos of most of a really lengthy record of audio system together with Michael Rosen. I photographed over 15 of them and you may see a number of the photos and a protracted record of names on My London Diary.
However as normal I used to be reasonably extra within the individuals and took many photos of the group and folks in it, in addition to others within the sq. together with the anti-Zionist Jews who stroll down from North London to protest at most occasions in assist of Palestine.
Far more and lots of extra photos on My London Diary:
Cease the Bloodbath in Gaza Rally
Finish Gaza Invasion March to Parliament
Israeli Embassy rally – Finish Gaza Invasion
Flickr – Fb – My London Diary – Hull Pictures – Lea Valley – Paris
London’s Industrial Heritage – London Pictures
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