Symbolic Funeral March in Portsmouth City Centre

The News, Portsmouth

April 26 2025

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00:0055 days ago, or 56 it may be now, Israel broke the ceasefire.

00:09We are seeing absolute horrific pictures in Gaza.

00:14People are absolutely starving.

00:17No medical care is getting in, no aid, no humanitarian aid.

00:21This is under one of many, many demonstrations at Barclays.

00:25They are under huge pressure.

00:26They have blood dripping from their hands.

00:29The people are so hungry, they're looking at olive trees and boiling up the olive tree

00:35leaves to try and find something to eat.

00:37Palestinians are not numbers.

00:40Like John said, they are people who had their homes and their land stolen from under their

00:44very feet during the Nakba in 1948.

00:48So one tonne bombs dropped on innocent people sheltering in tents in refugee camps.

00:54Two twin babies who were killed before their father even had a chance to register their

01:00births.

01:01A convoy of three clearly marked World Central Kitchen vehicles struck with laser precision,

01:08killing all the aid workers inside.

01:10At least four out of five main crossings blocked, trapping millions of Palestinians in Gaza.

01:17Five out of six water pumps destroyed over a year ago when over 95% of water was already unfit

01:25for human consumption.

01:27Six years old.

01:28Six years old.

01:29Hind Rajab was only six years old when she made her final desperate call for help.

01:35Only seven trucks of aid entering Gaza a day.

01:39A tiny proportion of the 500 trucks actually required.

01:43This is the first war now last in 2024 that I'm not in the country when it happens.

01:49Theft of land, water, people's lives and property is bigger than just the borders of Palestine.

01:56And what is allowed to happen in Gaza is then allowed to happen in the West Bank and then allowed

02:01to happen in Lebanon and in Syria and in Yemen.

02:05And we see it all the time but it's the lives of so many people and it's so many companies profiting

02:13from that.

02:14In the US and in the UK in less extreme ways but we're seeing the beginnings of that process

02:20of transformation.

02:21You know how ordinary people can be converted to the bidding of those who want to place those

02:28kind of orders on them.

02:29We're seeing it in real time actually happening on our streets.

02:33If you're killing thousands of people the first thing you would do without even thinking

02:38about it is stop selling them weapons.

02:40We demand change and I think that's an important development.

02:43The only opposition that seems to be noticed at the moment is from the right and from people

02:48like Reform UK who unfortunately I think may do fairly well in the local elections next week.

02:55There's also going to be a regional demonstration for Palestine on the 31st of May in Bournemouth.

03:00When we say it's a genocide it's because it is a genocide.

03:04Whether it's from the bombs falling from the fighter jets, the bulldozers

03:09raising over people's homes, the ambulance workers as we've seen uncovered by that

03:15telephone footage from one of the workers.

03:18Free, free, free, Palestine.

03:20Free, free, Palestine.

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