UK-wide peace vigils and marches planned this weekend

Christian campaigners outside St Martin in the Fields, Trafalgar Square, London

From Plymouth, to Cardiff, Liverpool to Orkney - more than 28 peace vigils and marches for Palestine will be taking place in towns and cities across the UK this weekend 19-20 October, to demand that Britain ends its complicity in Israel's genocide in Gaza, attacks on the West Bank and its bombing and ground invasion of Lebanon.

In Gaza more than 40,000 people , 16,000 of them children, are known to have been killed. Many thousands more are missing and huge numbers of people are suffering life-changing injuries. Most of the population has been displaced several times and are living in tents or UN shelters. Most homes, schools and hospitals have been destroyed. Israel has cut off electricity and water to most of the territory and there is a desperate shortage of food and medicine. Now Israel has invaded Lebanon, the civilian population there is starting to suffer the same fate as Gaza. In the meantime on the West Bank over 80 % of the population have no source of income as they are no longer allowed to work in Israel and foreign pilgrims have stopped coming. At the same time rampaging illegal Israeli settlers are stealing more and more land, evicting Palestinians from their homes.

There is now the threat of a wider war if Israel attacks Iran.

The list of demonstrations is growing all the time. Check our Listings page for updates. These are the ones we have been sent so far.

Saturday 19 October 2024

Bedford: Barclays, 111 High Street, MK40 1NJ, 11.30am

Belfast: The Spire 1pm. Wear black.

Brighton: Clocktower, 12noon

Cardiff: Barclays, Working Street, 11am

Guildford: High Street (jct. with Quarry St), 12noon-2pm

Halifax: Assemble at People's Park, Park Rd, Hopwood Ln, HX1 2TS, 2pm

Ipswich: Rally at Ipswich Town Hall, Cornhill, IP1 1DH, 10.30am-12noon

Kenilworth: Abbey End, 11am-12noon

Lancaster: Market Square, 1pm

Leominster: Apple Fair, 10am-4pm

London (Central): Rally at Trafalgar Square, 2pm-4pm

London, Lewisham: Assemble Lewisham clocktower, 12noon (then to Traf Square London rally).

Luton: Assemble Wardown Park, 10.30am

Maidenhead: Protest near now closed Barclays, SL6 1SF, 12noon-2pm

Newport, Isle of Wight: St. Thomas' Square, 12pm

Nottingham: Meet 12noon at Forest Rec. Marching to Brian Clough Statue.

Northampton: Rally, Abington Street, at the top of St Giles Terrace, NN2 3BN, 2pm

Norwich: Banner drop at Grapes Hill at 12noon. Then gather at The Forum for march & rally at 1pm.

Orkney: St. Magnus Cathedral, 1-2pm

Oxford: Barclays, Cornmarket St, 10am

Plymouth: Sundial, Armada Way, 12noon

Sheffield: March to stop the genocide. Meet at Endcliffe Park, 12.30pm

Stoke: Gather at Hanley Park Bandstand at 12noon. March on Albion Square.

Tunbridge Wells: Clocktower, Calverley Rd., 10.30am-12.30pm

Weymouth: By The Range, New Bond St, Weymouth, DT4 8LY

Worcester: Worcester Guildhall, High Street, WR1 2EY, 2-3.30pm

Sunday 20 October 2024

Liverpool: Gather outside Catholic Cathedral, L3 5TQ at 2pm. Marching to Derby Square.

Milton Keynes: Vigil at 86-88 Midsummer Blvd, MK9 3GB, 11am-12.30pm