How long will we maintain our silence in the face of slaughter? The UK’s cowardice over the Gaza genocide must end.

The last functioning hospital in Gaza City has just been obliterated.

Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital — a lifeline for the sick, the wounded, and the displaced — is gone, destroyed by an Israeli airstrike under the now-familiar justification that it was a Hamas “command center.”

It is the same claim as has been made about schools, bakeries, mosques, and homes. No evidence. No accountability. Just carnage.

More than 50,000 Palestinians are dead — the vast majority of them civilians.

Gaza’s population is being starved, bombed, displaced, and deprived of medical care.

This is not a war. It is an extermination.

And yet the UK government continues to enable it.

Keir Starmer’s administration has done nothing but echo empty platitudes about Israel’s “right to defend itself,” even as the evidence mounts that it is committing war crimes on an industrial scale.

The UK continues to supply weapons to Israel — weapons that are being used against Palestinian civilians — while pretending to support “peace” and “restraint.”

It is an insult. Worse: it is complicity in war crimes.

Where are the red lines? How many hospitals must be destroyed? How many children must die before the UK admits the truth?

Even within Labour, those who dare to speak plainly are silenced. Foreign Secretary David Lammy briefly acknowledged the horror unfolding in Gaza — only to walk it back under party pressure.

Starmer has shown no moral courage whatsoever, parroting the same pro-Israel talking points.

This is not neutrality. This is collusion. The UK is not an observer to genocide — it is an accessory to it.

And the media? With a few honourable exceptions, they twist themselves into knots to avoid the word “genocide,” even as the legal definition unfolds before our eyes: the deliberate destruction of a people, with no escape and no relief.

The world will remember who stood by. And it will remember who spoke out.

What you can do now:

We cannot rely on our government. We cannot rely on our media. We can only rely on each other — to raise our voices, to push back, and to demand justice.

📄 Download this action pack — with a template to write to your MP, guidance on contacting local and national media, and a list of UK-based campaigns and groups calling for an end to arms sales and meaningful accountability.

• ✍️ Write to your MP — Demand they support an immediate arms embargo, call for a ceasefire, and acknowledge that what is happening in Gaza is a genocide.
• 📢 Support campaigns — Groups like Palestine Solidarity Campaign, CAAT (Campaign Against Arms Trade), and Medical Aid for Palestinians are working on the ground and in Parliament. Support them, amplify them, join them.
• 🗣️ Don’t stop talking — Online, in the streets, at work, at school. Break the silence.

There is no moral grey area left. Either we act, or we are complicit.

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