"A man is wearing a sweatshirt bearing a photograph of Hind Rajab, the five-year-old girl who was killed in the Gaza conflict last year along with family members and the paramedics who tried to save her. He doesn't want to be named. But it is, he says, his attempt to keep her memory alive, until we get justice. Whether it takes one month, one year, 100 years, I'm not giving up."
"It's a heart-rending example of a phenomenon common to all these marches over the past two years: people are here to call for an end to the war and the Israeli occupation, and many are using their clothes to bolster their message. Far from being a frivolous afterthought, protest dressing has become an important part of these marches. Wearing the symbols and colours of solidarity can be an expression of grief and a call to action."
A national march for Gaza in central London shows protest clothing functioning as visible political expression. A man wears a sweatshirt with a photograph of Hind Rajab to keep her memory alive and demand justice, vowing to continue until perpetrators are held accountable. Protest dressing has become common over two years, used to call for an end to the war and the Israeli occupation. Items such as football-style shirts with Palestinian flags, PSC pin badges, keffiyehs and badges signify solidarity without words. Shared dress codes foster unity and combine grief with calls to action.
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