A BEREAVED Palestinian from Gaza was forcefully dragged out of a Labour Party event in Stockport attended by the party’s deputy leader Angela Rayner on Friday.

Dalloul al-Neder, who has lost his mother, brother, pregnant sister-in-law and two nieces during bombing in December, confronted Ms Rayner during the fundraising event at the Village Hotel in Cheadle.

“I lost my family in Gaza,” Mr Neder began as Ms Rayner looked on.“Why did you not demand a ceasefire?”

He was dragged away seconds after his intervention by a police officer.

Another protester shouted: “Fifteen thousand children and women are dead: where has your voice been?

“You call yourself a modern-day feminist? I don’t think so. Women are having to use scraps, tents, for sanitary towels.”

Bolton peace activist James Harker, who also attended the meeting, said: “You’re a vice-chair of Labour Friends of Israel.” He began asking Ms Rayner if she agreed with Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu, before she interrupted saying: “You’ve made your point, thank you.”

Natasha Khan from Bramhall, who joined the protesters, told the Local Democracy Reporting Service that her wrist was hurt as police took her away.

She said: “I barely said anything. I wasn’t resisting, I was walking out. The only thing I tried to do was pick up my flag.”

Ms Rayner and shadow business secretary Jonathan Reynolds, who also attended the event, were then escorted away by a police car as Palestine activists continued to heckle them.

Some 13 of the 31 members of Labour’s shadow cabinet have received donations from a prominent pro-Israel lobby group or individual funder, according to Declassified UK.