LONDON (Dispatches) – Thousands gathered outside Downing Street on Friday evening in an emergency protest under the banner “Stop Arming Israel – Words Are Not Enough,” demanding an immediate halt to the UK’s arms exports to the Zionist regime. 
The mass mobilization was organized by leading advocacy groups including the Palestinian Forum in Britain (PFB), Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC), Friends of Al-Aqsa (FOA), Stop the War Coalition, Muslim Association of Britain, and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND).
The protest drew people from across the UK, all united in opposition to the British government’s continued complicity in the Zionist regime’s military campaign in Gaza. The crowd held aloft Palestinian flags and placards, chanting calls for justice, ceasefire, and sanctions, as speeches from a wide range of campaigners filled the air with powerful messages.
Speaking on behalf of PFB, Sireen El Hamamy delivered a moving address condemning the UK’s role in Gaza’s genocide. 
“While words have been spoken, the UK continues to export weapons that enable atrocities,” she said. “This is the height of hypocrisy and moral failure. We demand that the British government align its actions with its words.” She went on to describe the catastrophic situation in Gaza, highlighting the deaths of children from starvation and disease and criticizing the West’s “racist and selective” approach to human rights. Her speech concluded with the defiant call: “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.”
Meanwhile, more than 400 lawyers called on the Dutch Bar Association (NOvA) to speak out against the Zionist regime’s “ongoing violations of international humanitarian law” in Gaza, Anadolu reports.
In a joint letter, titled “Lawyers for Peace,” 432 Dutch lawyers urged NOvA to assess the situation in Gaza and to bring the issue before the association of European national bars (CCBE).
Lawyers expressed their “deep shock” at the ongoing violence against civilians in Gaza while stressing that the Zionist regime “disregards” international law and the principles of humanitarian law.
“The entire legal infrastructure – including the building that housed all the courts and the archives of judicial and historical documents, and the office of the Palestinian Bar Association – has been wiped out. Practicing law has thus become virtually impossible,” the lawyers said, pointing to the current situation of their colleagues in Gaza.
Athens Bar Association also condemned the Zionist regime’s blockade of the Gaza Strip, Anadolu reports.
“The Athens Bar Association expresses its strong concern and protest over the ongoing blockade of the Gaza Strip by the Israeli army and the deprivation of the Palestinian population from basic necessities, food, especially baby food, water, and medicine, resulting in the starvation and death of tens of thousands of civilians, especially children and infant,” it said in a statement.
The statement called for action to ensure respect for international law and swiftly end the Israeli acts violating, among others, Geneva Conventions for the Protection of War Victims and international humanitarian law, such as the use of starvation as a means of warfare, the systematic bombing of hospitals, infrastructure and refugee camps, the deliberate conduct of attacks on civilians, and the displacement of populations.