Paloma Faith uses her ‘voice for the voiceless’ on Gaza campaign

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Paloma Faith has said she has to use her “voice for the voiceless” to advocate for children caught up in the Gaza conflict because influencers and famous faces have powerful platforms to advocate for change.

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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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