300 prominent British figures call for end to complicity in Gaza genocide

The prominent public figures have also demanded that the prime minister suspend all UK arms sales to Israel.

"We urge you to take immediate action to end the UK’s complicity in the horrors in Gaza," the letter starts.

"Violence stamped with UK inaction - flown with parts shipped from British factories to Israel, could be obliterating families in seconds. Each arms shipment makes our country directly complicit in their deaths."

Amongst the signatories are singer-songwriter Dua Lipa, actors Benedict Cumberbatch, Brian Cox, Toby Jones and Andrea Riseborough, broadcaster Gary Lineker, film director Danny Boyle, and Holocaust survivor Stephen Kapos. 

The main demands outlined in the letter urge Starmer to suspend UK arms sales and licences to Israel, ensure full humanitarian access across Gaza without military interference, broker an immediate ceasefire, and put an end to the starvation wrought on the besieged enclave.

"Over 15,000 children have already been killed - including at least 4,000 under the age of four. Bedrooms where children once slept, kitchens where families shared meals, schools where they learned - all reduced to rubble while Britain stands by," the open letter read.

"History is written in moments of moral clarity. This is one. 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?"

Since the start of the war on Gaza, the Israeli military has killed more than 54,000 people, the majority of them children and women, and wounded more than 123,300 people.

The signatories have condemned the total Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip that has left the population facing acute hunger.

They stressed that the UK must ensure "full humanitarian access across Gaza for experienced aid organizations without military interference."

"Right now, children in Gaza are starving while food and medicine sit just minutes away, blocked at the border. Words won’t feed Palestinian children - we need action... Mothers, fathers, babies, grandparents - an entire people left to starve before the world’s eyes," the letter said.

"290,000 children are on the brink of death - starved by the Israeli government for more than 70 days. They cry until they can’t cry anymore - until hunger takes even their voices. And their parents are left to do the unthinkable: hold them, and wait."