Pro-Palestine activists Jai Halai and Monday-Malachi Rosenfeld are found guilty of criminal damage following a protest at London’s National Gallery. On 9 October 2024, the pair target Pablo Picasso’s painting “Motherhood,” which dates from 125 years ago according to reporting, by plastering a poster depicting a Gazan mother and child over the artwork and hurling red paint on the gallery floor.
The outlets report that although they are convicted, both defendants are spared jail. The reporting frames the case as part of a wider pattern of pro-Palestine campaigning and protests that have involved damage or disruption at prominent public sites, while the legal outcome focuses on the criminal damage charges rather than the political message behind the demonstration.
