PALESTINE solidarity campaigners have staged a sit-in at Brighton station to call for an immediate arms embargo following Israel’s military escalation in Lebanon.

Activists gathered on Thursday evening holding placards and chanting “hands off the Middle East.” Israeli air strikes have killed more than 700 people in Lebanon since Monday.

They also chanted “no more arms trade” and “when Lebanon is under attack, what do we do? Stand up fight back!”

Representatives of Brighton Stop The War, Sussex for Palestine Campaign and Stop L3Harris spoke at the demo.

One young woman from Lebanon said her father “would be over the moon” seeing all the Lebanese flags.

She told the crowd about her family in Lebanon having to take shelter in schools in order to eat. 

And she said Lebanon has always agreed to a ceasefire so long as Israel stand down “and they continuously refuse to.”

The action comes after hundreds of protesters carried a 500-metre-long “red line” ribbon through the city centre last week in a show of support for Palestine.