PEACE campaigners gathered outside BBC offices and studios across Wales over the Bank Holiday weekend to protest at its coverage of Israel’s Gaza onslaught.

BBC studios and offices in Bangor, Carmarthen, Aberystwyth, Wrexham and Cardiff were targeted by hundreds of protesters over what they claimed was its biased reporting on Gaza.

Almost 200 people dressed in black in a silent vigil held empty pans outside the BBC Bangor office in north Wales symbolising the starvation of Palestinians in Gaza.

This mirrored a protest by Israeli citizens on Holocaust Survivors’ Day, where thousands, including Holocaust survivors, protested against the war.

A spokesperson for the peace protest said: “We call on the BBC to take their commitments to accuracy and impartiality seriously and demand that they tell the truth.

“We are ordinary people standing up for suffering and starving families in Gaza, and we urge the UK government to do more than offer ’fierce words’ to the Israeli government.

“We want them to immediately stop all arms shipments and involvement of UK military personnel and bases in the conflict and call on them to announce sanctions against Israel.”

More than £4,000 was raised for Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) at a weekend event in Llantwit Major, South Wales, celebrating Palestinian culture with music and poetry from Abeer Ameer, Salih Hassan and harpist Sue Banks.

Morning Star poetry editor Patrick Jones also recited poems from his recent work about Palestine and Gaza from A Constellation of Sorrows, reviewed in the Star on January 6 — https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/butcher-bastards