'This sentiment was echoed across those gathering at the protest.
Sam Weinstein from the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network (IJAN) wore a placard calling for regime change in the United States.'
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'Following her speech, she spoke about the trajectory of the movement and the need to expand understanding of the revolutionary project in Iran.'
'Yasmine, Palestine Youth movement referred to the law as an act of desperation from an occupier that knows its time is running out ‘just like the attack on Iran, just like the attack on Lebanon, just like the genocide in Gaza, they are underpinned by the same logic, kill what you cannot subjugate’.
'Protesters opposite Downing Street simulate what Israel’s new law means for Palestinian prisoners'
'Referring to the European Union’s petition to suspend its trade agreement with Israel, she pointed out that European states’ condemnation of the execution law will have no impact.
Tougher measures need to be taken to sever any military, financial or diplomatic support of Israel.'
‘Those settlers, if we are lucky, they get arrested for a month or two, whereas we are going to be executed.’
‘Now they’re legalising the killing of us only because we’re resisting their occupation.
‘They’ve legalised the killing of Palestinians and only Palestinians, whereas the settlers are committing murders across the West Bank, across colonised Palestine.'
'Samira Yusuff, a Palestinian activist from Community Camp for Palestine, said the execution of Palestinians is nothing new: ‘Palestinians were being executed by British colonisers back in the 1920s for resisting colonial power then.'
‘This is not a sovereign state legislating to deter crime, Israel is a foreign occupying force imposing an illegal measure on occupied people – people that have the right to resist.’
'Yasmine Adam said: ‘The law loosens judicial processes, enabling swift prosecution that can be passed even by junior judges; a further implementation of Israel’s apartheid.'
'This year’s commemoration was marked by Israel’s new death penalty law, an ethno-supremacist law specifically targeting Palestinians convicted of deadly attacks.'
'In a powerful speech at the protest, Yasmine Adam from the Muslim Association of Britain referred to the systematic murder of Palestinians in campaigns of torture, rape and starvation.'
'There are nearly 10,000 Palestinians currently held in Israeli prisons, many of whom are women and children, subjected to physical and psychological torture.'
'Since 1974, 17th April has been marked as an International Day of Solidarity with Palestinians in their struggle against Israel’s foreign occupation of their land.'
'Hundreds marched to a rally at Downing Street on Friday night to protest against Israel’s execution law then marched on into the West End'
'Hundreds march on Downing Street against Israel’s execution law
By Nilly Brook
Hundreds marched on Downing Street on Palestinian Prisoners’ Day, last Friday, against Israel’s execution law.'
'He urged Gazans not to come close to any suspicious devices and immediately report them to security forces.'
'Palestinian resistance forces have discovered and seized a number of Israeli spying devices inside makeshift tents set up by refugees in the southern flank of the Gaza Strip.'
'Israel’s genocidal war on the besieged region has killed at least 72,336 Palestinians and injured 172,213 others since October 2023.'
'Only a limited number of aid and commercial trucks have entered the Strip over the past six months, and the Rafah crossing has operated at reduced capacity.'
'Of the 2,400 Israeli violations since the ceasefire...921 shooting incidents, 1,109 bombardments, 97 incursions in residential areas, 273 demolitions of homes & buildings...at least 754 deaths, 2,100 injuries, including 312 children, women, and elderly people.'
'Israeli artillery and gunfire continued to target areas east of Khan Younis, while naval forces shelled coastal zones.
Israel has been violating the ceasefire for over 190 days now, and continues to breach the truce through airstrikes, artillery shelling, and gunfire directed at civilian areas.'
'A 16-year-old boy was seriously wounded in an Israeli drone strike in Deir al-Balah, and a girl was injured by gunfire in Mawasi, Khan Younis.
Medical sources said the boy was rushed to al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital with severe injuries.'
'In Rafah, one person was killed by Israeli gunfire, and a child was shot in the al-Mawasi area, where large numbers of displaced civilians are sheltering.
Additional injuries were reported in central and southern Gaza.'
'The casualties occurred as Israel continues to target residential neighbourhoods and civilian infrastructure in the besieged Palestinian territory, in violation of the ceasefire.
Children were among those killed and wounded in Rafah and central Gaza.'
'A NEW series of deadly Israeli attacks across Gaza on Sunday killed at least seven Palestinians and injured two dozen more. Ceasefire violations have now reached 2,400 incidents.'
'Palestinian child in the Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, killed by an Israeli drone strike'
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