Kristian Buus

Vigil held by Health Workers for Palestine in Whitehall in memory of all the innocent people killed and maimed in Gaza by Israeli troops on the 6th of September 2024, Central London, United Kingdom.

Tens of thousands took to the streets in the National March for Palestine on the 3rd of August 2024, London, United Kingdom. The march was a call to tell the newly elected Prime Minister Keir Starmer to stop arming Israel, to put pressure on Israel to make them stop their onslaught on Gaza and to call for a lasting ceasefire. It is almost ten months since Hamas attacked Israel, killing 1200 people and taking 240 people hostages and since then Israel has killed almost 40.000 Palestinians, mostly women and children. Israel has also taken thousands of Palestinians into custody, most without trial or charges and held indefinitely under highly critical conditions.

Pro-Palestine protest outside Hackney Town Hall demanding the council divest from companies involved in Israel and to end twinning with Haifa in Israel on the 9th of July 2024, London, United Kingdom. The peaceful protest coincided with a Hackney Council pensions committee meeting discussing their demands and the protest was part of a 2 months ongoing encampment outside the town hall campaigning for the council to divest and to end twinning with Haifa. The protest was met by a small number pro-Israeli counter protestors and police. The Hackney council Pension Committee ended up turning down all demands.

London, United Kingdom. 6th July 2024. Tens of thousands took to the streets asking the new UK government to demand an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza and to stop arming Israel.

Hackney Divestment Camp. Portrait of a protest. The activists behind the Hackney Divestment Camp demand that Hackney council ‘stop investing in Israel’s "genocide and war crimes”’ and that they break their twin town relationship with Haifa in Israel and that they twin with Palestine instead. The encampment was set up on the night of the 9th of May 2024, similarly to encampments at universities across the UK, after more than 7 months of war between Israel and Hamas, a war where Hamas has killed 1200 people, most in Israel, and where Israel in response has killed more than 37.000 and wounded more than 85.000 people including tens of thousands of women and children, most in Gaza, and is keeping Gaza under a brutal siege. Portraits of a protest - Hackney Divestment Encampment 2024 The people in the portraits were asked to write a message of their own choosing and in their own words, only request was that it had to relate to the ongoing war in Gaza.

On the first day of the hearing at The International Court of Justice (ICJ), which has been asked by South Africa to consider whether Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza, an ad-van drives around Westminster with the definition of Genocide on the 11th of January 2024 in Central London, United Kingdom. The definition is from Oxford Languages and it states that genocide means "The deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group”. The campaign is by UK Palestine Affairs Network (UKPAN), a campaigning body made up of Palestinian lawyers, academics and business leaders.

Voices for Gaza, an evening of solidarity and culture and fundraiser event for the NGO Medical Aid for Palestinians at The Roundhouse, London. The event was organised in association with Health Workers 4 Palestine, a global grassroots movement standing in solidarity with medics in Palestine. A number of artists performed, playing music, reading poems or letters from friends stuck in Gaza. Gaza has been bombed and has been under siege for 5 months and more than 100,000 Palestinians have been killed or wounded by Israeli forces.

Hundreds of thousands marched in London demanding a ceasefire on the 3rd of February 2024, London , United Kingdom. The march went down Regent’s Street to a rally in Whitehall next to Downing Street. More than 25,000 people have been killed in Gaza by Israeli forces since Oct 7th 2023 as retaliation after Hamas attacked Israel, killing more than 1,000 people and took 240 hostages. Israel is relentless in its bombing and siege of Gaza in spite of the International Court of Justice has made an interim ruling warning Israel not to commit genocide.

Global Health Workers For Palestine hold a vigil in Whitehall opposite Downing Street 10 remembering the health workers killed in Gaza under Israeli bombardment. One minute silence was held to commemorate the killed. A number of speakers spoke and the names of dead health workers were held high.