16-03-2025
Campaigners gather in town centre to support Palestine
PEACE campaigners gathered in Kendal once again this weekend to support peace and justice for Palestine.
Campaigners from South Lakeland and Lancaster District took to Highgate, Kendal, in order to collect signatures in their continued effort to call for an end to nuclear disarmament.
The protest is to end the supply of arms and arms components from the UK to Israel, for a permanent ceasefire on Gaza, as well as recognition of the Palestinian state and divestment of public monies from Israel companies.
Philip Gilligan, spokesperson of the Kendal protest group said: 'People in Westmorland have long been horrified by Israel's brutal attacks on the people of Gaza.
'They remain very eager to join our calls for local and national politicians to do more to ensure a lasting peace in Palestine.
'They are horrified to see on the news that the Israeli government now seems intent on starving the people of Gaza by cutting-off electricity to the few surviving desalination plants and by blocking food supplies.
'They note that this comes on top of a year and a half of suffering, in which tens of thousands of children have been killed, injured or orphaned by Israel's relentless bombing.
'They want an end to the supply of arms and materials for armaments to Israel and they want an end to all complicity in actions which Amnesty International has judged to be genocide.'
