THOUSANDS across Britain rallied over the weekend to back an international boycott aimed at breaking the Israel’s government’s death-grip on Gaza.

In Bristol 6,000 people joined a “peace march for Palestine,” winding from the Shah Jalal Jame mosque through the city centre to a rally on College Green.

Labour councillor Hibaq Jama who took part in protest said the demonstration was possibly the city’s biggest show of strength since the 2003 nationwide protests against the invasion of Iraq.