INCOMING PM Andy Burnham must finally put an end to arms sales with Israel, anti-war campaigners demanded today as they marked 1,000 days of genocide in Gaza.

The Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC), Stop the War Coalition (StWC) and the BDS movement renewed their calls for the government to take a clear stance against Israel as Britain prepares for a new leader.

PSC deputy director Peter Leary said activists should use this “horrifying milestone” and Mr Burnham’s likely crowning as PM to call for an end to economic and political enabling of the genocide.

He told the Morning Star: “As Britain braces for a new Prime Minister, we must use this horrific landmark to reaffirm our demand that the British government finally puts an end to all arms trade with Israel and calls a halt to its ongoing economic and political support for Israel’s crimes.

“One thousand marks a horrifying milestone since the start Israel’s genocide against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip – 1,000 days in which more than 73,000 Palestinians have been killed, millions displaced and homes, schools, hospitals and other essential infrastructure destroyed.”

Mr Leary highlighted the ongoing nature of attacks on Palestinians, adding that “despite the so-called ceasefire, that genocide continues with over a thousand Palestinians violently killed by Israel in Gaza since it supposedly took effect.”

Jeremy Corbyn said: “For 1,000 days, Britain has armed and enabled the worst crime of our time.

“Keir Starmer may have gone, but his shameful record on Palestine remains. 

“This issue is not going away - and we will carry on for as long as it takes until we have exposed the full scale of the British government’s complicity in genocide.”

Stop the War coalition vice chair Chris Nineham said it has been “a thousand days of genocide, but decades of occupation and apartheid.

“Which is why the Palestine Coalition has called a national demonstration in London for Saturday July 18, ahead of the ‘crowning’ of the new prime minister.

“Support for Israel played no small part in Starmer’s downfall and we need the demo to send a clear message to his successor: No to War – End the Genocide – Sanctions Now!

“And then we must all build for the October 10 global demonstration for Palestine, as agreed by last month’s International Conference Against War in London.”

BDS movement general co-ordinator Mahmoud Nawajaa said today’s milestone represented “one thousand days of Israel’s livestreamed genocide and global complicity in enabling it.

He added this “should shake the conscience of humanity.”

Mr Nawajaa said: “Israel’s less visible genocide continues unabated,” slamming Western countries for their ongoing complicity in violations of the so-called ceasefire.

He said this has been “fuelled by the relentless complicity of states, corporations, and institutions, mainly in the colonial West, that arm, fund, whitewash, and normalise this crime of crimes.

“Israel and its partners in genocide, led by the US, continue to treat Palestinian lives as expendable and international law as irrelevant in their gory pursuit of a might-makes-right order.”

CND Cymru slammed Sir Keir Starmer for funnelling more cash into the war machine in one of his last moves as PM, adding that it hoped that Mr Burnham would “put people and the planet before profit.”

Sir Keir’s proposed Defence Investment Plan revealed “the priorities of outgoing PM Starmer – profit, not people.

“Channelling money to spend on weapons of war, purchased from arms companies, means less money is spent on hospitals, tackling climate change, or addressing the material needs of people.

“The egregious £63 billion for nuclear weapons should be the first thing to go for the next PM. Instead, that money could be invested in people and the planet, not lining the pockets of multinational corporate shareholders.

“Security is about keeping people safe - and people are currently starving, suffering the effects of climate change, and are getting poorer and poorer while billionaires and shareholders get richer and richer.”

CND Cymru added: “We can only hope the priorities of the next PM will put people and the planet before profit.”

Britain’s largest union slammed Labour’s £15bn increase in military spending this week, as research from the Transition Security Project showed it could lead to more than 20,000 job losses.

Unison general secretary Andrea Egan said: “This timely analysis highlights how making cuts to government departments to bankroll more military spending will result in job losses.

“This costly and wasteful plan means extra cash for war and overseas interventions, but less for schools and hospitals.

“These are the wrong priorities. We need to go to war on poverty, inequality and climate change.”