OVER 700 baby vests lined Parliament Square today in a powerful tribute to Gaza’s murdered infants.

The action honoured the infants less than one year old killed in the genocide that have been named by Gaza’s Ministry of Health.

Tara Dupraz, from the Women Rising coalition, one of the organisers, said: “We have gathered 710 baby vests to honour those named, though we know the true number is far higher and that thousands more infants now suffer from severe injuries, malnutrition, and disease.”

About 30 per cent of the identified children slaughtered by Israel between last October and August 31 were younger than five.

At least another 2,800 children killed have yet to be identified. 

Research by Oxfam found that more women and children have been killed by Israel in Gaza in the last 12 months than the equivalent period of any other conflict over the past 20 years.

Dorothea Hackman, a retired grandmother from Camden, said: “The UK’s failure to condemn and act to stop the violence is deeply shameful. 

“That’s why we are displaying baby vests outside Parliament — to make them confront the reality of their continued support for Israel.”

Selma James, founder of Wages for Housework Campaign and Global Women’s Strike, said: “In Gaza mothers and their children face genocide for insisting on life. 

“We demand an end to war, genocide and poverty for mothers and all carers.”

The action was part of the International Women’s Strike in which 28 female-led organisations and movements took part.

It began on Thursday on the anniversary of the historic 1975 Icelandic women’s strike with a banner-drop on London’s Westminster Bridge carrying the message: “Women make life: invest in caring, not genocide.”