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Celebrities urge UK PM Keir Starmer to ‘end UK complicity’ in Gaza

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Benedict Cumberbatch, Dua Lipa, Massive Attack, Danny Boyle, Tilda Swinton and Riz Ahmed are among the hundreds of celebrities urging UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer to “end UK complicity” in Gaza. 

The request was put forward in an open letter to the PM, led by refugee charity Choose Love.  

As highlighted by Sky News, the letter demands that all UK arms sales to Israel be immediately suspended and that the government commit to seeking a ceasefire for “the children of Gaza”. 

“We urge you to take immediate action to end the UK’s complicity in the horrors in Gaza,” it reads.  

The letter outlines that children in Gaza are starving, while adequate medicine and food “sit just minutes away” – a reference to the 11-week blockade of supplies to Gaza by Israel, which was lifted last week. The letter states that 71,000 children under the age of four are “acutely malnourished”, and they “cry until they can’t cry anymore – until hunger takes even their voices”.  

“You can’t call it ‘intolerable’, yet do nothing,” it says directly to Starmer. 

Other famous signatories include Primal Scream, Annie Lennox, Lena Headey, Nicola Coughlan, Maxine Peake, Gary Lineker, Lily Cole and more. Activist Munroe Bergdorf, artist Tracey Emin and Holocaust survivor Stephen Kapos have also signed the letter.  

The letter ends: “The world is watching and history will not forget. The children of Gaza cannot wait another minute. Prime minister, what will you choose? Complicity in war crimes, or the courage to act?” 

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