Goodbye & Good Riddance 2023: My work in November was largely on protests over the continued genocide in Gaza the place Israeli assaults had been killing hundreds of civilians together with giant numbers of youngsters as they tried to exterminate Hamas.
The killing continues and at present in January 2024 Wikipedia states “Over 22,000 Palestinians have been killed, a majority of them civilians, and hundreds extra are thought-about lacking beneath the rubble of destroyed buildings.” Practically all of Gaza’s 2.3 million inhabitants have been displaced and there’s a extreme humanitarian disaster with a scarcity of meals, medicines and protected water, with most of Gaza’s hospitals now not capable of function. It now appears sure that many Gazans will die from famine and illness. The Israeli assault has fairly unequivocally grow to be a deliberate genocide.
Protests around the globe have known as for a ceasefire, and that is supported by nearly all of nations on this planet on the UN, however the killing continues with help for the Israeli offensive from the USA and UK and some different nations.
Whereas each Israel and the Palestinian resistance have dedicated warfare crimes, Israel is doing so on an enormous industrial scale. Refugee camps and Hospitals have been intentionally focused and plenty of hospital employees are among the many hundreds of Palestinians detained in Israel. Extra journalists have already been killed in Gaza than the full quantity killed in six years of the Second World Struggle and Israel has prevented the world’s press from reporting from Gaza and the elements of Israel which got here beneath assault by Hamas and the opposite Palestinian teams.
A number of hundreds march from a rally at Lewisham Council Workplaces in Catford to a rally within the centre of Lewisham in one in all many native protests across the UK in solidarity with Palestine calling for a right away ceasefire and in opposition to the federal government help for Israel’s assault on Gaza. Later many went on to the central rally for a Gaza ceasefire in Trafalgar Sq..
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Many hundreds packed Trafalgar Sq. and the encompassing streets for the most important rally there in residing reminiscence in solidarity with Palestine and in opposition to our authorities’s disgraceful help for Israel’s assault. The rally got here after native protests round London and throughout the nation observing a silence for these in Palestine and Israel already killed and calling for a right away ceasefire with negations to free the hostages and in direction of a peace settlement within the space.
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Lots of of hundreds march peacefully from Hyde Park to the US Embassy at 9 Elms on Armistice Day calling for a right away ceasefire within the Center East, the place hundreds of harmless civilians together with many youngsters have died each within the Hamas-led assault on Israel and in vastly punitive air assaults which have devastated giant areas of Gaza.
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Round two thousand fill the pavements at Chalk Farm station and march in solidarity to Camden City and on to a rally exterior the workplace of MPs Keir Starmer and Tulip Siddiq. Marchers expressed shock at killings of harmless civilians together with youngsters, medical doctors and sufferers, known as for a right away ceasefire in Gaza and had been indignant that Starmer had whipped Labour into voting in opposition to this.
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A protest at Amazon’s HQ in London joined teams the world over within the Make Amazon Pay coalition hanging, protesting, picketing, boycotting, and preventing for the rights of Amazon employees around the globe in opposition to abuse and exploitation. Amazon dodge taxes, deny union recognition, refuses to pay honest wages and fails to make sure protected working situations and their actions are wrecking the local weather, threatening the way forward for human life on earth.
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Two cops stroll within the protest. Lots of of hundreds marched once more by means of London to name for ceasefire within the warfare on Gaza the place hundreds of thousands of civilians nonetheless face assaults by Israeli forces. The present pause and hostage exchanges are welcome however do little to handle the pressing humanitarian disaster and the killing is about to renew. The marchers name for a everlasting ceasefire and for a political answer to deliver peace and justice to Palestine beneath worldwide regulation.
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A big crowd of followers of Hizb ut-Tahrir Britain, women and men in separate teams, listened to audio system in entrance of the Egyptian Embassy calling for Muslims to rescue of Palestine from 75 years of occupation, brutal oppression, sieges, kidnapping and homicide. They name on Muslims in armies within the area to hitch collectively to revive a simply caliphate the place folks from all faiths can stay collectively throughout the Center East.
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It was getting darkish as I took footage of the Egyptian Embassy and I used to be drained and feeling chilled by the speeches. I feel I first photographed Hizb ut-Tahrir Britain round 20 years in the past and have by no means felt welcome as I took footage. However I additionally keep in mind that I didn’t take them severely when years in the past they talked about ‘Muslim Armies’ – after which we noticed the rise of ISIS and I realised how fallacious I had been.
The ultimate a part of my wanting again on 2023 will likely be on-line tomorrow.
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