1 – Lift the Ban on Palestine Action. Stop persecuting those taking direct action to protect the Palestinian people from genocide.
2 – Name the Israeli assault on the Palestinian people as a genocide. Comply with the resulting legal obligations, including by ending all military trade and other military cooperation with Israel.
British campaigners reported Saturday that the sheer volume of people who showed up in London‘s Parliament Square to support the nonviolent advocacy group Palestine Action presented a major challenge for the Metropolitan Police, who had threatened to arrest anyone supporting the organization.
The campaign group Defend Our Juries reported that as of 4:00 pm local time, at least 200 people had been arrested for joining the protest, where more than 1,000 sat silently in the square with many displaying signs that read: „I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action.“
Others held signs reading, „Is this why you joined the police?“ as officers arrested demonstrators including National Health Service workers; a blind man using a wheelchair; author Jonathon Porritt; and former Guantánamo Bay detainee Moazzam Begg, who now advocates for wrongly-imprisoned people swept up in the War on Terror.
The woman was wearing a T-shirt with the slogan „We are all Palestine Action“.
Palestine Action became a proscribed organisation in July under the Terrorism Act, making membership of or support for the group a criminal offence. Two men were also cautioned for the same offence.
Police say they arrested a 43-year-old man for disorderly behaviour.
Hundreds of demonstrators gathered outside the British Parliament to hold signs reading „I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action,“ in what they said was a protest for freedom of expression.
By doing so, the protesters violated a law passed by the British Parliament in early July that classified Palestine Action as a terror organization and made it illegal for anyone to publicly show support for it.
Unit 8200, roughly equivalent in function to the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), has transferred audio files of millions of calls by Palestinians in the occupied territories onto Microsoft’s cloud computing platform, Azure, operationalizing what is likely one of the world’s largest and most intrusive collections of surveillance data over a single population group. This is according to interviews with 11 Microsoft and Israeli intelligence sources in addition to a cache of leaked internal Microsoft documents obtained by the Guardian.
In a meeting at Microsoft’s headquarters in Seattle in late 2021, the then-head of Unit 8200, Yossi Sariel, won the support of the tech giant’s CEO, Satya Nadella, to develop a customized and segregated area within Azure that has facilitated the army’s mass surveillance project. According to the sources, Sariel approached Microsoft because the scope of Israel’s intelligence on millions of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza is so vast that it cannot be stored on military servers alone.
Hundreds had descended on the square for the demonstration as part of a busy weekend of protests in the capital. The Met said it had drafted in officers from other forces to form a “significant policing presence” and warned it would arrest anyone expressing support for the proscribed group.
Clusters of officers were seen escorting protesters carrying placards backing Palestine Action through swelling crowds to waiting police vans on the edge of the square.
Hundreds of Palestine Action activists are reportedly aiming to provoke mass arrests in an attempt to overwhelm police forces and pressure the UK government to lift its ban on the group.
Following intensive lobbying by representatives of the Israeli government and the arms industry such as Lord Walney, dishonestly presented to the public as ‘independent advisers’, Palestine Action have been branded as a ‘terrorist organisation’, for trying to stop crimes against humanity and for exposing the British government’s complicity in genocide.
A peaceful sign-holding action involving at least 500 people is taking place on August 9th 2025.
Over 500 people are set to participate in a protest against the UK government’s ban on the direct action group Palestine Action, putting to the test a pledge by the Metropolitan Police to arrest anyone showing support for the proscribed organisation.
Campaign group Defend Our Juries (DOJ) is organising the protest on Saturday in Parliament Square to demand the reversal of the group’s proscription, saying that the protest would only go ahead if at least 500 people committed to joining.
As of Monday evening, the group said that as many as 1,000 people had signed up, confirming on Tuesday that it would go ahead.
The protest will involve participants holding cardboard signs reading: “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action.”
Activists from Greenpeace UK have rebranded bus stops across London with posters reading “Protesting genocide is not terrorism.”
More than 500 people have pledged to hold “I oppose genocide, I support Palestine Action” signs today in central London, as part of a campaign to end the proscription of Palestine Action.
The Met Police have said they will arrest all participants, regardless of capacity constraints.
On Thursday evening, outside the cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, thousands of protesters rallied against the move to expand the occupation The protesters called for a deal to end the war and the release of all the hostages. In Tel-Aviv, police arrested 10 protesters as thousands gathered in front of the Likud headquarters in Tel Aviv and blocked Ayalon Highway to demand a hostage deal and the end of the war. Protest groups said two of the protesters were minors. Demonstrations against war take place across Israel in Herzliya, Haifa, Karkur junction, Hod Hasharon, Rosh HaAyin, Kfar Sava, Beer Sheva, Raanana, Naveh Ilan, Ha’ogen junction, Gome junction, Yesod Hama’ala, Rosh Pina, Beit Hashita, Horfish, Tzemach, Yannai junction and other localities
Around 300 architects and planners have signed on Friday petition titled “Stop the Destruction – Yes to Rebuilding Gaza”. “We express deep shock at the acts of destruction, killing, starvation and mass deportation from cities and civilian areas in the Gaza Strip,” they wrote. “We cannot forget Hamas’ horrific crimes on October 7 – acts of massacre, destruction and the abduction of civilians from border communities. But those atrocities do not justify indiscriminate harming of civilians, women and children or the near-total destruction of the Gaza Strip.”
On Thursday, Israeli cultural organizations issued a statement condemning “attacks on the very idea of free culture” after some 1,000 Israeli artists and authors were criticized for signing a petition called “Stop the Horror in Gaza.” The petition called for an end to the war and the safe return of hostages. It also accused Israel of causing starvation and urged soldiers not to follow illegal orders or commit war crimes. Signed by organizations including the Association of Museums and ICOM Israel, the Israeli Directors’ Guild, and the Israeli Actors’ Association, the statement said, “In recent weeks, we have witnessed a troubling wave of threats and attacks against creators, cultural organizations, and Israeli artworks.”
10 בדצמבר 2012
Hadash – (the Democratic Front for Peace and Equality) was established in 1977. The aim of its founders was simple: to unite most of the supporters for peace, equality, democracy and workers’ rights, Jews and Arabs, in order to create a political alternative to the government’s policy of occupation and exploitation. Activists from the main protest movements of the time – the Land Day Protest against expropriation, and the Black Panthers Protest against discrimination; as well as adherents of different peace movements and academics, joined in the establishment of Hadash.
מפלגת הדמוקרטים בראשות יאיר גולן היא הבית הפוליטי של המחנה הליברלי-דמוקרטי בישראל. המפלגה תאחד את כלל הכוחות והגורמים הדמוקרטיים ותהווה אלטרנטיבה נחושה לממשלה הנוכחית.
(August 7, 2025)
Der Bericht „This is not aid. This is orchestrated killing“ basiert auf medizinischen Daten von Ärzte ohne Grenzen, auf Patient*innen-Aussagen und medizinischen Beobachtungen aus erster Hand, die darauf hindeuten, dass israelische Streitkräfte und privates US-amerikanisches Sicherheitspersonal an den GHF-Verteilstellen gezielt Gewalt gegen hungernde Palästinenser*innen verübt haben.
Ärzte ohne Grenzen fordert, den von den Vereinten Nationen koordinierten Mechanismus zur Lieferung von Hilfsgütern wiederherzustellen. Die Regierungen der Vereinigten Staaten und anderer Länder sowie private Geldgeber*innen sollten jegliche finanzielle und politische Unterstützung für die GHF einstellen. Die GHF ist eine israelisch-amerikanische Stellvertreterorganisation, die die Verteilung von Lebensmitteln militarisiert hat.
Der nun veröffentlichte Bericht von Ärzte ohne Grenzen dokumentiert die Vorfälle, die Mitarbeitende von Ärzte ohne Grenzen in zwei Kliniken erlebt haben.
(August 7, 2025)
The conflict in Gaza has been marked by 21 months of abject horror and
dehumanisation. The world has watched as a civilian population, unable to
flee, has been starved, forcibly displaced and bombarded by one of the world’s
most “sophisticated” militaries — armed by Western states. In May 2025, the
unfolding genocide in Gaza was marked by a disturbing new development
as Israeli authorities moved to dismantle the UN-led humanitarian response,
replacing it with a militarised food distribution scheme run by a previously
unknown entity — the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF).1 The GHF has
been touted by the Israeli and US governments as an “innovative solution”
— a supposed answer to unproven claims of aid diversion in Gaza and
unfounded accusations of UN failure.
In practice, the militarised food distribution scheme has weaponised
starvation and curated suffering. Distributions at GHF sites have resulted in
extreme levels of violence and killings, primarily of young Palestinian men,
but also of women and children, who have gone to the sites in the hope of
receiving food. At the time of writing, the Ministry of Health in Gaza reports
that more than 1,000 people have been killed and 7,200 injured while
attempting to collect aid — the vast majority of them at GHF distribution
sites.3 Shockingly, we have witnessed the impact of the violence with our
own eyes. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) medical teams have been working
on the frontline, treating people with devastating injuries — gunshot wounds,
barbed wire lacerations, crush injuries from stampedes — sustained while
trying to receive aid at GHF distribution sites.
GAZA, August 8, 2025 (WAFA) – The death toll in the Gaza Strip has reached 61,330, the majority of whom were women and children, since the beginning of the Israeli aggression in October 2023. At least 152,359 others have also been injured.
This toll remains incomplete, as many victims remain trapped under rubble, inaccessible to ambulance and rescue crews.
8 August 2025 23:34 BST
The number of Palestinians who have starved to death as a result of Israel‘s siege on Gaza has risen to 201, with most being children, Dr. Muneer Alboursh, director general of the Gaza health ministry, told Aljazeera on Friday.
Updated August 8, 2025 at 10:12 a.m. EDT
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In late July, the world’s leading hunger monitor declared what many had already feared: Famine is unfolding across Gaza, it said, with “a rise in hunger-related deaths” driven by “widespread starvation, malnutrition, and disease.”
Nearly 200 people have died of starvation in the enclave, according to the Gaza Health Ministry — a number experts believe is an undercount, both because malnutrition leaves patients more vulnerable to other infections and conditions that are listed as the cause of death, as well as the difficulty of recording deaths that take place outside hospitals.
President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet next week in the United States as Trump pushes for a peace agreement that could require Ukraine to make major territorial concessions.
The two leaders will meet Aug. 15 in Alaska, Trump and a Putin aide said, to try to forge a truce and end the war in Ukraine that Russia started 3½ years ago by invading the country. Trump did not say whether Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky would be attending.
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“ The location is still under discussion, the official said, but possibilities include the UAE, Hungary, Switzerland and Rome. Further details or logistics are still unclear and very fluid,“ the official said.
At the same time, the official said that Russian representatives have provided a list of demands for a potential ceasefire, and the U.S. side is now trying to get agreement from the Ukrainians and European allies.