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Palestine protesters paste image from Gaza over famous Picasso painting

October 9, 20243 Mins Read


Two protesters have pasted a photo of a Gazan mother and child over a Picasso artwork at the National Gallery.

At just before noon the pair walked into the London gallery and plastered a photograph of a mother clutching her child over the protective glass cover of the 1901 painting ‘Motherhood (La Maternité) before pouring red paint on the gallery floor.


The group is calling for a two-way arms embargo on Israel and for the new UK government to halt all new oil and gas licences granted since 2021.

GB News has approached the National Gallery for a comment.

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The pair pasted the picture over the artwork

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The image used was taken by Palestinian journalist Ali Jadallah and shows a distressed and bloodied pair, coated in debris. The caption for it reads:A mom holds [her] injured child after an Israeli attack, as Israeli airstrikes continue on twelfth day, at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.”

One of those who participated in the action today was Monday-Malachi Rosenfeld, a Politics and International Relations student at Greenwich, London.

The 21-year-old said: “I’m taking action because as a Jew, I feel like it’s my duty to call out the genocide being committed in Gaza.

“I want the world to know this isn’t in the Jewish name and I want to see a free Palestine. When Keir Starmer says Britain stands with Israel he’s wrong. We know very well that this is a genocide, not ‘self defense’ and we as the people of Britain say enough is enough.”

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\u200bPaint was poured underneath the painting

Paint was poured underneath the painting

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Jai Halai, 23, an NHS worker from London who also took part in the protest, said: “I’m taking action with Youth Demand because at this point it’s been over one year of seeing my colleagues in the healthcare field decimated.

“Decimated by bombs, by bullets and by having to operate, with no medical equipment, on starved children.

“We need a two way arms embargo on Israel now; 87 per cent of the British public want this and never before have they been more disillusioned with our Government and political class who do not represent us. We need a revolution in our democracy.

“Direct action is what gave us our rights and is the only way to move us towards proper justice. Civil resistance is our duty as young people: to defend those without a voice today and to defend our futures. It’s time to take to the streets; bring on the revolution!”

A Youth Demand spokesperson today said: “Our government is arming Israel to carry out a genocide against Palestinians and killing without restrain in Lebanon.

“It can’t be all carrots and no sticks: a two-way arms embargo is the least Britain can do to stop displacement, destruction and death! Young people will continue to resist genocide-as-usual, sign up at youthdemand.org.”

At least 45 people were killed in Israeli military strikes on Gaza in the past 24 hours, Palestinian medics said on Wednesday, as Israeli forces pressed on with a raid on the Jabalia refugee camp in the enclave’s north.

The Israeli military says the raid, now in its fifth day, is intended to stop Hamas fighters staging further attacks from Jabalia and to prevent them regrouping. It has repeatedly issued evacuation orders to residents of Jabalia and nearby areas, but Palestinian and UN officials say there are no safe places to flee to in the Gaza Strip.



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