Lush shuts UK shops 'in solidarity with Gaza'

Beauty concatenation Lush has unopen its UK shops, website and factories successful protestation astatine the Israeli authorities "preventing urgent humanitarian assistance from entering Gaza".

In a statement, the steadfast said much enactment was besides needed by the British authorities "to bring an contiguous halt to the decease and destruction, including an extremity to arms income from the UK".

It said it had decided to adjacent stores connected Wednesday and spot posters connected windows with the message: "Stop starving Gaza - we are closed successful solidarity."

"Across the Lush business, we stock the anguish that millions of radical consciousness seeing the images of starving radical successful Gaza, Palestine.

"Like the remainder of the world, we conflict to find ways we tin assistance whilst the Israeli authorities is preventing urgent humanitarian assistance from entering Gaza.

It added that "whilst Lush is losing a time of takings, this besides means that the UK authorities is losing a time of taxation contributions from Lush and our customers

"We anticipation they excessively perceive the connection our closure sends, with much Government enactment needed to bring an contiguous halt to the decease and destruction, including an extremity to arms income from the UK."