Turn the TUC's demand for a free Palestine into a campaign for peace
THE TUC’S call for an end to all arms sales to Israel and immediate recognition of the state of Palestine must immediately be translated into direct pressure on ministers.
We are almost a year into Israel’s brutal invasion of Gaza. It has involved the brazen mass murder of civilians, exposed in mass graves uncovered after Israeli troops moved on from their assaults on the al-Shifa and Nasser hospitals.
It has involved the deliberate targeting and killing of journalists. More than two-thirds of all journalists killed worldwide in the last 12 months have been victims of Israeli military action, and more than a tenth of all journalists in Gaza are now dead.
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