Women shave their heads to protest UK inaction on killing in Gaza
On Tuesday 19th March at 2pm, eleven women publicly shaved their heads outside the UK Parliament, London, in grief, anguish and protest against the UK Government’s refusal to call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, failure to demand an end to the unlawful blockade of food, water and humanitarian aid, and continued profiting from UK-based production and sale of arms to Israel.
The women laid their hair in front of the gates to the Houses of Parliament alongside the message “UK Government is complicit with genocide in Gaza”. Some locks of hair were kept to be sent to MPs and Ministers.
The women felt compelled to take action together in witness to the horrific conditions in Gaza, where over 31,000 civilians have been killed by Israel. 70% of civilian fatalities in Gaza are women or children. Children are being starved at the fastest rate the world has ever seen.