Pro-Palestine activists paint UK Labour Party office red

Pro-Palestine activists in London protesting against Israel’s savagery in the besieged Gaza Strip have painted the Labour Party office red.

Video footage and photos showed red paint on both the interior and exterior of the Labour headquarters in Southwark London.

“Labour has blood on their hands,” Youth Demand activists said. “They are complicit in the murder of Palestinians, and millions of people around the world, as they continue to drive genocide.”

One protester said Labour leader Keir Starmer is an accomplice in the “mass murder” in Gaza.

“Young people will not stand by and watch Keir Starmer allow mass murder by selling weapons to Israel and allowing the development of new oil and gas,” said Chris Faulkner, 21, an earth sciences student from Oxford.

“Over 30,000 people have been killed in Gaza and the breakdown of our climate will kill hundreds of millions more in the coming decades.”

Another demonstrator said the Conservative and Labour parties were both “complicit in genocide.”

Ella Taylor, 19, a student from Southampton, said, “Our politicians are out of control.”

“They are complicit in genocide and we cannot wait patiently till the election to have our say. If we want change we must take matters into our own hands.”

Police reported at least 12 people had been arrested.

“They are complicit in the murder of Palestinians, and millions of people around the world, as they continue to drive genocide,” the group posted on X.

The Youth Demand group, which describes itself as “a new youth resistance campaign fighting for an end to genocide,” has links with the environmental group Just Stop Oil.

The activist group is calling on the British government to ban arms sales to the Israeli regime.

Before painting the Labour office red, 60 members of the group had marched around central London from Embankment, through Trafalgar Square and Piccadilly Circus to Downing Street and on to Parliament Square.

The protesters waived Palestinian flags and held placards reading “Youth demand better,” “Profit Kills” and “Labour, Tory genocide enablers.”

“From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.”

“Stop the UK war machine.”

Those were slogans the protesters chanted.

Israel launched the campaign in Gaza on October 7, 2023 after Hamas waged the surprise Operation Al-Aqsa Storm against the regime in response to its decades-long suppression of the Palestinians. The regime has killed more than 33,000 Palestinians, most of them women and children.

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