00:00We're here today because I'm with Choose Love and we've dropped a banner outside parliament
00:05with a message from a child in Gaza who was seven years old who was asked by the contacts
00:12that Choose Love have on the ground in Gaza what he wanted to say to the British Prime
00:17Minister and his message was clear and simple, just I don't want to die Prime Minister, which
00:23is as a mother so harrowing to hear and so straightforward and kind of incomprehensible
00:30that the actions of the UK government have not been as straightforward as they should
00:34have been. I feel like for me as a parent, watching the footage of all these children
00:42being massacred and dying in ways that have been stopped and the UK government's complicity
00:50in that. Today we're here to demand an end to UK government sales and licensing of arms
00:58to Israel so the massacre and ending of all these children and adults lives can be stopped.
01:05The Loma Faith is a Choose Love ambassador. Choose Love is a UK based NGO which provides humanitarian
01:14aid to and advocacy for refugees around the world. It became the largest grassroots distributor
01:23of aid in Europe in 2016. The demonstration at Westminster Bridge on Monday comes after more
01:32than 300 celebrities, activists and others including former Match of the Day presenter Gary Lineker,
01:41actors Benedict Cumberbatch and Brian Cox as well as singer Annie Lennox signed a Choose Love letter
01:50calling on Sir Keir Starmer to take immediate action to end the UK's complicity in the horrors of Gaza
01:58as well as suspending UK arms sales to Israel.
02:04The Choose Love group urged Sir Keir to use all available means to ensure humanitarian aid gets into the territory
02:12and make a commitment to the children of Gaza that he would broker an immediate and permanent ceasefire.
02:24Last week the names of thousands of children killed in Gaza were read out by dozens of actors
02:31including Steve Coogan, Juliet Stevenson, Toby Jones and Emily Watson as well as Choose Love supporters
02:41in a vigil outside the Palace of Westminster.
02:45A government spokesperson repeated the Foreign Secretary's comments saying as the Foreign Secretary has said,
02:55that Israel's actions are intolerable.
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