Organisers said the show at Wembley Arena, attended by about 12,000 people, was streamed live by more than 200,000 viewers. It says it will donate its proceeds to organisations working to help Palestinian people.

Celebrities including Florence Pugh, Benedict Cumberbatch and Louis Theroux addressed the crowd at the event.

It also featured performances from singers Cat Burns and Bambie Thug as well as a montage of video messages that included actor Cillian Murphy and popstar Billie Eilish.

BBC Newsbeat was at the event, and asked some of the stars attending why they felt it was important to be there.

Actor Bilal Ali Hasna, whose father is Palestinian, said he was there to "stand against" Israeli conduct in Gaza.

Israel launched military action in response to the Hamas-led attack on the Nova music festival in southern Israel on 7 October 2023, where 1,200 people were killed and 251 were taken hostage.

Since then, at least 65,141 people have been killed in Israeli attacks in Gaza, according to the territory's Hamas-run health ministry.

The ministry says another 435 people have so far died during the war as a result of malnutrition and starvation.

Israel's politicians and military leaders say it is acting in self-defence and working to destroy Hamas, as well as securing the release of remaining Israeli captives.

Bilal tells Newsbeat he believes Israel is perpetrating genocide in Gaza - a view echoed by a United Nations commission of inquiry that reported its findings this week.

Israel's foreign ministry rejected the report and denounced it as "distorted and false".

But Bilal believes there is a "growing consensus" that artists shouldn't be silent "when it comes to speaking about freedom for Palestine".

"It's hard to pinpoint exactly how this environment is created," he says.

"But there is an environment in the cultural sphere where artists specifically feel scared to talk about this issue.

"They feel scared about hurting communities and they feel scared about saying the wrong thing."

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