Former Deputy Mayor calls for end to British support of Israeli ‘genocide’
Speaking outside the Banking Hub with a group of fellow protesters, Cllr France said that “as long as the UK provides arms, training, intelligence, and diplomatic cover for Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right Israeli Government, we are all being made complicit in their genocide in Gaza”.
“That is, unless we take a stand and say: No, not in my name,” he said. “A world where we accept the heights of human suffering inflicted on Palestinians will doom us all in the end.”
Israel is accused of killing more than 60,000 people in the Gaza strip, mostly women and children as well as journalists and aid workers.
They launched their horrific offensive after the Hamas-led attacks on Israel on October 7, 2023, which killed hundreds of Israelis.
But the conflict has been rumbling on for decades with Palestinians living under harsh Israeli control, leading to the Gaza Strip often being referred to as the world’s largest prison.
Last month, a new Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) analysis declared that more than half a million people in Gaza are trapped in famine, marked by widespread starvation, destitution and preventable deaths.
This latest demonstration was organised by Palestine Solidarity Campaign and was held outside the Banking Hub in Welshpool High Street due to one of the banks in the Hub - Barclays – often being criticised by activists for its funding of companies which are linked to the sale of arms to the Israeli Government.
Palestine Solidarity Campaign Maldwyn activist, John Brooks, said: “We are determined to ensure that the truth about Gaza is heard. Nearly 19,000 children have been killed by the Israeli offensive including more than 1,000 babies under one year old. There is famine in the territory and its effects will last for years. There needs to be an immediate ceasefire.”
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