Palestine campaigners have marched in Cumbria to protest against a Cumbrian business.
The 60 campaigners walked from Kendal to Burneside yesterday, Saturday October 18, to tell James Cropper plc to stop producing material used in Israeli war planes.
The campaigners said they were calling on the company to be held accountable.
The campaigners said over the last two years, over 65,000 people have been killed – including more than 19,000 children.
Although a ceasefire is currently in place in Gaza, the Israeli airforce still poses a threat, they said. Campaigners marched under a banner reading “Stop supplying genocide, never again to anyone”, and carried paper doves as a call for peace.
One of the walkers, Amy Hield, of Kendal said: “We have walked from Kendal to Burneside to call on the company to end its role in military production, and invest in products and jobs that local people can be proud of.”
The protestors embarked on their 2.5- mile walk from Kendal at noon, after the weekly vigil outside Kendal Town Hall, which has taken place every week for the past two years.
The walk ended outside the James Cropper factory in Burnside, with speeches and music.
