We demand that our governments end their military and political support for Israel’s actions. We support the global movement against the destruction of Gaza and the mass displacement of the Palestinian people. But for now, while condemning every act of violence against civilians and every infringement of international law whoever perpetrates them, our obligation is to do all we can to bring an end to the unprecedented cruelty being inflicted on Gaza. There will come a time when they are held to account for their complicity. Our governments are not only tolerating war crimes but aiding and abetting them. Dispossessed of rights, described by Israel’s minister of defence as “human animals”, they have become people to whom almost anything can be done. Now, in their hundreds of thousands, bombarded from air, sea and land, Palestinians whose grandparents were forced out of their homes at the barrel of a gun are again being told to flee – or face collective punishment on an unimaginable scale. Gaza is already a society of refugees and the children of refugees. In the words of the UN’s undersecretary for humanitarian affairs, ‘ the spectre of death’ is hanging over the territory. Israel has reduced much of Gaza to rubble, and cut off the supply of water, power, food and medicine to 2.3 million Palestinians. “We are witnessing a crime and a catastrophe. They cite the UN’s undersecretary for humanitarian affairs Martin Griffiths, who has said that ‘ the spectre of death’ is hanging over Gaza, and call for “an immediate ceasefire and the opening of Gaza’s crossings to allow humanitarian aid to enter unhindered”. The signatories include producers, curators, writers, DJs, architects and designers who support the “global movement against the destruction of Gaza and the mass displacement of the Palestinian people”. Staff, Florence Peake and Georgina Starr say that, in Gaza, “Palestinians whose grandparents were forced out of their homes at the barrel of a gun are again being told to flee – or face collective punishment on an unimaginable scale.” Visual artists Tai Shani and Oreet Ashery, Larissa Sansour, Rosalind Nashashibi, P. The minister had made the comments while announcing Israel’s “complete siege”, and halting supply of water, power, food and medicine to 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza. The artists, including Robert del Naja and playwrights Tanika Gupta and Abbie Spallen, condemn “every act of violence against civilians and every infringement of international law whoever perpetrates them”.Ĭiting Israeli Minister of Defence Yoav Gallant’s depiction of Palestinians as “human animals”, directors Mike Leigh, Dominic Cooke and Asif Kapadia, comedians Frankie Boyle and Josie Long, authors Marina Warner, Jacqueline Rose, Gillian Slovo and Courttia Newland, and poets Anthony Anaxagorou and Michael Rosen, say Palestinians “have become people to whom almost anything can be done”. Renowned actors Tilda Swinton, Charles Dance, Steve Coogan, Miriam Margolyes, Peter Mullan, Maxine Peake and Khalid Abdalla are among more than two thousand people from across the arts who have signed a letter saying that: “Our governments are not only tolerating war crimes but aiding and abetting them.” Governments should “end their military and political support for Israel’s actions”.Palestinians face “collective punishment on an unimaginable scale”.They accuse governments of “aiding and abetting” Israel’s “war crimes” in Gaza.
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