Women shave heads outside UK parliament in Gaza protest

Eleven women shaved their heads outside the UK's parliament on Tuesday, as an act of protest against Britain's role in the war on Gaza. 

The organisers said the action was inspired by a Middle East Eye story, in which we reported on Palestinian women in Gaza being forced to shave their heads because of a lack of water to wash their hair. 

According to a statement, the protest was "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".