PALESTINE supporters targeted Barclays branches across Britain on Saturday, demanding the bank ends its financial involvement in firms aiding Israeli suppression of Palestinians.

The Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) says that Barclays’ support of apartheid Israel can be compared to the bank’s previous involvement in apartheid South Africa.

PSC said that militarised violence against the Palestinian people is a central feature of Israel’s occupation and apartheid regime, including demolitions of Palestinian homes, brutal armed crackdowns on Palestinian protesters and indiscriminate bombing campaigns of the Gaza Strip.