'Blood on their hands!' Pro-Palestine activists paint Labour headquarters RED in furious protest
Activists have painted Labour headquarters red, claiming the party has "blood on their hands".
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Activists from Youth Demand have painted Labour headquarters red, claiming the party has "blood on their hands".
The group wrote on social media: "Labour has blood on their hands. They are complicit in the murder of Palestinians, and millions of people around the world, as they continue to drive genocide."
🚨 BREAKING: We Painted @UKLabour HQ Red
— Youth Demand (@youth_demand) April 8, 2024
📢 Labour has blood on their hands. They are complicit in the murder of Palestinians, and millions of people around the world, as they continue to drive genocide.
‼️ If you're done with this shit, go to https://t.co/rqU3Oswm2K pic.twitter.com/c35Mo2nj3W
They added: "If you're done with this s***, go to http://youthdemand.org".
Sir Keir Starmer has faced criticism for his position on the Israel-Hamas conflict, being accused of not taking a tough enough line against Israel's actions.
They posted a video on social media of the activists vandalising the inside of the office
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The Labour Leader today reiterated calls for the Government to publish advice received on whether Israel is violating international humanitarian law in Gaza.
He said: “Yesterday was the six-month anniversary of this awful conflict, and we’ve seen the continual withholding of hostages, we’ve seen 33,000 people killed in this conflict, many of them women and children, so we need the conflict to end. We need that ceasefire.
“On the question of arms sales, there’s a legal test for when sales should be suspended.
“The Government’s got advice on that and so what the Government should do is to publish that legal advice, or at least a summary of it.
“They’ve published summaries before in response to the Houthi attacks, to publish that so we can all see it and that appropriate action can then be taken in relation to the sale of arms.”
Downing Street today said the Government is “completely united” on its position on the Israel-Hamas conflict.
The Prime Minister’s official spokesperson rejected suggestions that the Cabinet was split on how to respond to the ongoing conflict following comments from the Foreign Secretary and the Deputy Prime Minister over the weekend.
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The Labour Leader today reiterated calls for the Government to publish advice received on whether Israel is violating international humanitarian law in Gaza
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He said: “The Government is completely united on this matter. The Prime Minister set out his position clearly in the statement that he put out on Sunday.”
The spokesperson added: “We continue to support Israel’s right to self-defence and the UK was obviously shocked by the attacks made by Hamas. As a result we completely stand by Israel’s right to their security.”
The spokesman said the Government was “focused” on achieving a “humanitarian pause” to get hostages out and aid into Gaza.
There have been growing calls for the UK to stop arms sales to Israel, with 600 lawyers writing to the government saying weapon exports must end because the UK risks breaking international law over a "plausible risk of genocide" in Gaza.
Israel rejects the claim of genocide as "wholly unfounded".
The UK would stop arms sales to Israel if it was found in breach of international law, Oliver Dowden suggested.
He told the BBC: “We will of course act in accordance with our obligations under law in respect of arms sales and the way that that works is there is legal advice, the Foreign Secretary reaches a judgement and he gives that advice to the Business Secretary.
“If it is the case that we can’t lawfully in accordance with the act do so, of course we won’t supply those arms, but that is precisely the position for example even in respect of the United States or any other country around the world.
“We rightly hold ourselves to a high standard, and we hold the countries to whom we export arms to a high standard, and I think that is what you would expect.
“And it contrasts so strongly, our adherence to very high values, with the appalling atrocities that have been committed by terrorist organisations against Israel.”