The JVP joins London mass demo for Gaza

Admin | 09 Aug, 2014 03:27AM | Leave a comment
On 09 August 2014 a mass demonstration and a march was held in London against the barbaric attacks carried out against Palestinian people by Israel with the support of the USA. The protest started opposite the BBC building in Portland Street and marched to rally at Hyde Park. Tens of thousands of people from all over UK representing different political parties and organisations gathered in London for the protest. Main streets within London city limits were closed by the police.

The JVP committee in the UK represented this massive protest to express their solidarity with the Palestine people.

Over the past four weeks, London has held the biggest demonstrations for Gaza in the world, twice mobilising over 50,000 protesters.The members of the Jewish community in London who were against Israel's barbaric onslaught were also seen to part in this protest.The streets were filed with the sounds of "FREE FREE PALESTINE!" "HANDS OFF GAZA" "BBC SHAME ON YOU".

A month of the world's fifth most powerful military force bombarding an area no bigger than 135 square kilometers has killed more than 2000 Palestinians and injured over 10,000 more. No one and nothing has been safe from Israel's onslaught. It has been reported that 80% of the dead are civilians and over 400 of them children ,women,the disabled, the elderly and the infirm, all slaughtered by Israel's indiscriminate bombing, making the Zionist state's action a war crime .