As the death toll in Gaza exceeded 19,000, Members of the Sheffield Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid visited Waitrose and Marks and Spencer on Saturday and removed stock from the shelves that had been grown on land stolen from Palestinians.
Spokesperson Hils explained to the demonstrators outside that the dates they had removed were Medjool Dates, grown in the Jordan Valley, a land where villagers have no rights to build homes or access to water, no rights to access schools or healthcare and are currently being ethnically cleansed from their land. Find out more in the video.
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The event finished outside Sheffield Cathedral where Jenny Richardson from Sheffield Kairos gave a moving speech.
Later Palestinian flags were flown from the Big Wheel on the Moor in an act of solidarity with the Palestinian people suffering in Gaza and the West Bank.
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