Save the Children Calls on UK to ‘End Complicity’, Halt All Arms Sales to Israel

Date: 03 May 2025 - 21:44

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LONDON (Dispatches) – A UK-based charity called on the British government on Saturday to “end its complicity” and halt all arms transfers to Tel Aviv, as Gaza enters its third month under a total siege imposed by Israel.
Save the Children issued a statement on X urging the UK government to “end its complicity” and suspend all arms transfers to the Zionist regime “urgently,” calling for the accountability of all perpetrators and the end of “Israel’s impunity.”
The Zionist regime closed Gaza’s crossings on 2 March, blocking the entry of essential supplies including water, food and medicines, despite multiple reports of famine in the war-devastated territory.
“Two months of no food. No water. No fuel. And the UK government is still complicit. The UK Government must not be an ally to atrocities,” it added.
The charity highlighted that denying aid is a violation of international law.
“Instead of much needed food, clothing or tents to help children survive, airstrikes continue,” Save the Children wrote on X.
“The halt on aid must be immediately reversed and humanitarian assistance must be allowed to enter Gaza,” the statement stressed, adding that words of concern are “meaningless without action.”
The Zionist regime’s army renewed a deadly assault in Gaza on March 18, shattering the ceasefire and prisoner exchange agreement that took hold in January.
Meanwhile, over a hundred pro-Palestine volunteers in a resident-led campaign knock on every door in the Easton and St Paul’s areas of Bristol, come rain or shine.
“What door knocking can do is shake you from the slumber of any feelings of helplessness that you might have when you see what’s happening in Palestine,” Stephen tells Middle East Eye.
A volunteer from the Bristol Apartheid-Free Zone Campaign, which has signed up over 1,800 households to a pledge to not buy Israeli fresh produce.
It aims to create a mandate that encourages high street businesses to join the boycott.
Nearly 50 shops and businesses stocking fresh produce have joined so far, and the campaign boasts a 50 percent sign-up rate among those who open the door, which the campaigners say is an “unprecedented” rate for door-to-door canvassing.
“On the doorstep, solidarity with Palestine is the overwhelming norm, so a big part of the campaign has just been trying to make that solidarity public and visible,” Stephen says.
The campaign strategy has been drawn from Bristol’s history of anti-apartheid resistance, being inspired by the success of the St Pauls Apartheid-Free Zone.