SHADOW foreign secretary David Lammy was forced to flee the stage on Saturday after his speech was interrupted by pro-Palestinian protesters.

The Labour frontbencher was addressing the Fabian Society conference in London when demonstrators mounted the stage shouting: “When will you condemn the genocide? How many more children need to die?”

After they were escorted away by security, more people in the audience stood up to call out the party’s stance on the continued bombardment of Gaza, shouting: “Blood on your hands!” and “Ceasefire now!”

Once Mr Lammy returned on stage, he told the audience: “We all want to see a sustainable ceasefire in Gaza.

“I want change through power, not through protest.”

The Free Palestine Coalition said some of its activists infiltrated the think tank’s gathering to call out the politician’s position on Gaza.

“As a former lawyer, Lammy should know better than to falsely claim that an occupying power has the right to ‘defend itself’ against a territory it occupies,” the network said in a statement.

“It is difficult to see how Lammy is upholding any commitment to human rights or international law as we enter into the 106th day of Israel’s unrelenting assault on Gaza.”