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Celebrities including Steve Coogan, Brian Cox, and The Crown star Khalid Abdalla came out in support of Palestine at the TV Baftas last night by calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.
The actors used the glitzy ceremony at London's Royal Festival Hall as a platform to make a political statement as they arrived on the red carpet wearing red pins with hands on.
The pins were launched by Artists4Ceasefire, a group of people within the entertainment industry, and are a symbol that is seen as calling for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.
A-list celebrities were slammed by Israeli figures in March for wearing the red pins at the Oscars, as they say the image harks back to the 2000 Ramallah lynching of two Jewish men.
Mr Cox, who starred as Logan Roy in Succession, attended the Baftas alongside his actress wife Nicole Ansari-Cox who was also seen wearing a red pin.
Celebrities including Steve Coogan , Brian Cox, and The Crown star Khalid Abdalla came out in support of Palestine at the TV Baftas last night
Mr Cox wore a red pin which is a symbol calling for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. The pins were launched by Artists4Ceasefire, a group of people within the entertainment industry
Khalid Abdallaa, 43, who played Princess Diana 's late boyfriend Dodi Fayed in the Netflix show, also held up a clear bag containing 14,000 red sequins to represent every 'child that has been killed in Gaza'
Poldark actress Sofia Oxenham, The Last Kingdom's Stefanie Martini, and Luke Rollason and Bilal Hasna of Disney+ series Extraordinary also wore the red pin.
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BAFTA TV Awards: The Crown's Khalid Abdalla makes another political statement by writing 'stop arming Israel' on his hand and bringing 14,000 sequins to the red carpet 'for every child killed in Gaza'
Abdallaa, 43, who played Princess Diana's late boyfriend Dodi Fayed in the Netflix show, also held up a clear bag containing 14,000 red sequins to represent every 'child that has been killed in Gaza' amid the ongoing conflict in the Middle East.
On his other hand, the star had written 'Stop arming Israel' in black marker pen as he posed for photos holding up the sequins.
Taking to social media platform X, Khalid wrote: 'Every one of these 14,000 sequins is a child that has been killed in Gaza. Multiply that by 2.46 and you get the current death toll, over 34,500.'
Unicef confirmed more than 14,000 children have been killed and 12,000 wounded in Gaza since Hamas's attacks on Israel on October 7 last year.
It is not the first time the actor has shared his political stance on the conflict, writing 'never again' on his hand at the 2024 Emmy Awards in January, in reference to the Israel-Hamas war.
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