Youth Demand supporters target Picasso masterpiece 'Motherhood' in pro-Palestine protest

Youth Demand supporters person pasted a photograph of a parent and kid successful the Gaza portion implicit a Picasso 'Motherhood' masterpiece astatine the National Gallery. 

The 2 supporters walked into country 43 of the assemblage conscionable earlier midday and plastered the photograph implicit the protective solid of the painting, earlier pouring reddish overgarment connected the assemblage floor. 

The image, which shows a Gazan parent clutching onto her injured kid whilst covered successful debris, was taken by Palestinian writer Ali Jadallah.

Police were called to the assemblage and arrested the pair. 

A National Gallery spokesperson said nary harm had been caused to immoderate of the paintings successful the room, but confirmed the country was presently closed. 

The enactment radical says it is calling for a two-way arms embargo connected Israel and for the caller UK government to halt each caller lipid and state licences granted since 2021. 

One of the activists progressive successful the stunt was 23-year-old Jai Halai, an NHS idiosyncratic from London. 

He said: 'I'm taking enactment with Youth Demand due to the fact that astatine this constituent it's been implicit 1 twelvemonth of seeing my colleagues successful the healthcare tract decimated. Decimated by bombs, by bullets and by having to operate, with nary aesculapian equipment, connected starved children.

'We request a 2 mode arms embargo connected Israel now; 87% of the British nationalist privation this and ne'er earlier person they been much disillusioned with our Government and governmental people who bash not correspond us. We request a gyration successful our democracy.

'Direct enactment is what gave america our rights and is the lone mode to determination america towards due justice. Civil absorption is our work arsenic young people: to support those without a dependable contiguous and to support our futures. It's clip to instrumentality to the streets; bring connected the revolution!'

Also taking portion was Politics and International Relations pupil Monday-Malachi Rosenfeld, 21, who said: 'I'm taking enactment due to the fact that arsenic a Jew, I consciousness similar it's my work to telephone retired the genocide being committed successful Gaza. 

'I privation the satellite to cognize this isn't successful the Jewish sanction and I privation to spot a escaped Palestine. When Keir Starmer says Britain stands with Israel he's wrong. We cognize precise good that this is simply a genocide, not 'self defense' and we arsenic the radical of Britain accidental capable is enough.'