On Monday 12 August 2024, the Palestine Solidarity Committee (PSC) organised an emergency protest opposite Downing Street, the office and home of the UK’s Pro-Zionist ("without qualification") Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer.
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Several hundred attended the rally and there were speeches by former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn,
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibvVFINJ7Rk
as well as by PSC director Ben Jamal and Palestine’s ambassador to the United Kingdom, Husam Zomlot.
The protest was called following the Israeli bombing of yet another school in Gaza, again with catastrophic consequences. Early on the previous Saturday morning Israel had fired three missiles at the Al Tabeen school which killed at least 93 people and possibly many more, although the power of the explosions and subsequent fire was so intense that in many cases it was difficult or impossible to recognise the dead from the jumble of body parts.
Attempts by Gaza’s emergency responders to put out the fire, which followed the explosions, were hindered by Israel having cut off the area’s water supply. The school had been sheltering around 6000 displaced Gazans, including many women, children and old people.
US news network CNN reported that Saturday’s attack was "the fifth on a school in Gaza by the Israeli military since last Sunday." CNN also reported that based on analysis of film of the debris, Israel had used at least one US manufactured GBU-39 bomb in the strike.
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Israel claimed it had targeted and killed 20 Hamas militants, with IDF (Israeli Defence Force) spokesman Daniel Hagari adding that "The IDF conducted a precision strike against the terrorists in one specific building of the compound—according to our intelligence, no women and children were present," although neither he nor the Israeli government offered any credible evidence to back these claims.
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