Activists plastered Picasso masterpiece with Gazan mother and child poster

Two pro-Palestine activists covered a Picasso painting with a picture of a Gazan mother and child before pouring red paint on the National Gallery floor, a court heard. NHS worker Jai Halai, 25, and politics student Monday-Malachi Rosenfeld, 23, plastered the poster over the glass cover of the 1901 masterpiece ‘Motherhood’ on 9 October 2024. Footage played in court shows security guards unsuccessfully trying to pull the pair away from the painting as they unveiled the picture of the Palestinian…