Hundreds of protesters took to the streets of Cardiff city centre on Saturday afternoon in support of Palestine.
Protesters were holding banners and chanting "free, free Palestine" and "Palestine will be free" as they marched from The Hayes to Queen Street. Violence in the Middle East has intensified in the past week with at least 122 people killed in Gaza and eight in Israel since the fighting began on Monday.
There was a similar protest in London with thousands shouting for "immediate action" to be taken by the UK. In Cardiff on Saturday (May 15), there was a police presence in the city centre and they followed the peaceful march into Castle Street and then on to the city's main shopping street.
A couple of the protesters climbed on top of the Aneurin Bevan statue at the top of Queen Street. One protester climbed onto the shoulders of the statue while another led a chant of "Boris Johnson, shame on you".
Over a megaphone, a protester said: "The people of Palestine are not statistics and we need to get their stories out there and show the world what's really going on."
Jeff Hurford from the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, said: "If you look at what's happening there now, 100, 000 people have had to leave their homes because Israel might have an invasion. There are refugees and people who cannot return to their homeland scattered throughout the world.
"If you look at the Iraq war protests, it didn't stop the war but it probably stopped us from going into Syria. It's hard to measure the impact but the effect is cumulative. It's probably led the media to become slightly fairer in their reporting of the Palestine conflict. There were countless people coming up to me today saying they were at the 2014 protest, and this was definitely bigger."
