The London Visual Activist Collective (LVAC) created “Empty Spaces”, remembering all of the 500 children that were killed by Israel during the 2014 massacre. This is their press release of the event:
In the summer of 2014 Israel launched a vicious and brutal assault on the Gaza Strip killing over 2250 people.
Over 550 children were killed during the attack.
Today members from the London Visual Activist Collective (LVAC) met outside Downing Street to remember the children that are no longer with us. Children that, if it were not for Israel’s blatant disregard for civilian life, would still be with us today.
They would still be riding their bikes and mothering their dolls.
They would still be sleeping in their beds and in their fathers arms.
They would still be answering back in the cheeky way that kids do.
They would still be playing in the school yard, Football, Hopscotch, Hoopla, Tag.
But they don’t do any of that anymore because Israel removed them from the world.
All that remains now are empty spaces.
Empty beds, empty fathers arms, empty school desks, empty seats in class, empty souls of of the parents, empty hearts of the school friends left behind.
Remembering all the children lost during Operation Protective Edge#Gaza2YearsOn pic.twitter.com/yJlhXye2rw
— joel rayner (@joe_n1nety) August 28, 2016
These children are now gone forever and an empty space remains.
The parents and siblings are still there, having to endure each waking moment in grief.
The pain does not go away once the bombs stop falling and because the news cameras have stopped rolling.
So today we showed a unique paper doll chain. Measuring over 160 metres in length and made by people from the UK, containing over 550+ cut outs of kids, it signifies the empty spaces left in the world because those children were killed.
#Gaza2YearsOn
“EMPTY SPACES” Remembering 550 children killed in Gaza by Israel #London2016 pic.twitter.com/GxnE6hBiQ7— Carmen ❤️ Palestine (@carmenlopezmar7) August 28, 2016
We also wish to convey to the people of Gaza and Palestine in general, that we have not forgotten about them.
Longer video from Downing Street today.#Gaza2YearsOn pic.twitter.com/OWYV0nBSvn
— Damian (@CockneyActivist) August 28, 2016
All around the world people are standing up to for Palestine and we always will.
Thanks to @CockneyActivist
The children are gone but the (war) criminals and their (war) crimes live on.
And the enablers raise a glass in toast:
– Clinton: We came, we saw, they died.
– Albright: The price was worth it.
It is so sad to think that these innocent children were killed for no valid reason, by a very vicious occupier, who always justifies these killing with bull shet excuses. Whenever a Israeli kid is killed the wails and howls are louder, and emphasis is on just how precious these lives are. The arrogance of the Israelis is so obvious, when they keep ignoring the pleas by the world to avoid civilian casualties, the totally false statements by Israeli leaders stating just how careful their killers in uniforms are when sending those bombs, and finally the proof of just “careful” they were when you look at the number of children and even families who had to die for Israel’s master plan to get rid of all Palestinian Arabs from their own territories..
According to a PressTV report Saeb Erekat has claimed that the number of children killed was 487, not 550.
How many of this lesser number were killed by Hamas militants misdirecting their fire?
How many were being used as human shields?
Israel went to unprecedented lengths to minimize civilian casualties but war is war.
Hamas had been firing thousands of rockets at Israel for years; I don’t read one jot of criticism here about Hamas, a proscribed terrorist organisation and their primary responsibility in this whole affair.
@- talknic
You forgot French settlers withdrew from Algeria.
And, an extra note: immediately after WW II, Thousands of ethnic Germans were forced to withdraw from the Eastern Europe, expelled from where they had lived for centuries., many died on the way.
Also, Mayhem ignores that the 1945-6 Nuremberg & Tokyo Trials established more nuanced and new laws & their Geneva progeny enhanced those laws for the entire international community. One of the defenses at Nuremberg was that the victor states were applying ex post facto law.
@DaBakr
“maybe the vastly-by 1000s- greater numbers of children being killed daily in the greater middle east has made it more difficult to feel specifically concerned excpt for only those who are singularly devoted to the palestinian cause rather then the absence left by all children killed by conflict. i could be wrong but i’m not the only one: just saying”
“just saying” my a..e. Yet another crass example of knee jerk hasbara “whataboutery”. So Monsieur DaBakr according to your one dimensional Zionist logic if a politician or a MSM commentator in a discussion about the deaths of six million jews killed in the Holocaust dares to say well remember that there were around 20 million Russians military and civilians killed by the Nazis then you and your ilk would say that is fine , in no way diminishes the Holocaust and is in no way anti – semitic.
I don`t think so