Pro-Palestinian campaigners in Dorset are planning on holding a 'die-in' protest outside of a town centre bank this weekend.

The Dorset Palestine Solidarity Campaign will be gathering outside Barclays Bank in Dorchester tomorrow (Saturday, June 29) from 11am until 12.30pm.

The protesters will be holding a 'die-in', a form of protest or demonstration in which a group of people gather and lie down as if dead.

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The protest forms part of a wider national day of action from pro-Palestinian protesters calling for a boycott of Barclays Bank with group claiming the bank is 'bankrolling' Israel's war with Hamas in Gaza.

It comes after a sustained campaign of protests and marches in the county, with campaigners having held several protest in Dorchester, Weymouth and Bridport since the conflict broke out in October 2023.

In January campaigners staged a protest inside the branch on South Street.

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A spokesperson for the Dorset Palestine Solidarity Campaign said: "The bank holds over £2 billion in shares, and provides £6.1 billion in loans and underwriting, to 9 companies whose weapons, components, and military technology are being used by Israel in its attacks on Palestinians.

"This includes investing £100 million in general dynamics, which produces the gun systems that arm the fighter jets used by Israel to bombard Gaza.

"As well as investing in Elbit Systems, which produces armoured drones, munitions and artillery weapons used by the Israeli military.

"We’re calling on concerned people to boycott all Barclays services until the bank ends its grave complicity in Israel’s attacks on Palestinians."