A pro-Palestine demonstration will stage a ‘Mock Funeral’ in Pembrokeshire this weekend - with organisers inviting attendees to bring white shrouded mock dead bodies, spattered in red paint for a symbolic mass funeral representing the 24,448 Palestinians who have been killed in 100 days of war on Gaza.

The demonstration will take place at 2 pm in Castle Square, Havefordwest this Saturday (January 20), with organisers - Stop The War Pembrokeshire and Solidarity with Palestine Pembrokeshire stating that MP Stephen Crabb is “feeling the heat” as local pressure mounts for him to withdraw his support for Israel's genocidal war on Gaza.

Since October 7 of last year, local demonstrations have repeatedly marched on Mr. Crabb’s constituency office as well as targeting Marks & Spencer and Barclays bank over their support for Israel’s war and occupation in Palestine, weekly vigils have also been held.

Local campaigners have also begun delivering weekly open letters to Mr Crabb, with this week’s letter focussed on the Genocide case in the Hague against Israels’s war crimes, asking the MP: “Will you support the ICJ ruling?” [if the international court decides that Israel is committing a Genocide in Gaza.]

Key National Trade Unionists are to attend and speak at the rally including Cerith Griffiths of the Fire Brigades Union Cymru and Mairéad Canavan a National Executive member of the NEU (National Education Union) who said: “I am supporting the demonstration because this is a human catastrophe caused by the deliberate action of the Government of Israel and is clearly a war crime and an act of genocide.

“The UK Government has failed to call for a permanent ceasefire and continues to give unconditional support to Israel. As a teacher I'm particularly horrified by the cost of the genocide to children.

“Since 7 October 2023 , at least 23,469 Palestinians were killed in Gaza and 59,604 Palestinians were reportedly injured. Some 70 per cent of the fatalities are women and children.”

Nizar Dahan (Neezo), who is a prominent Pro-Palestine activist from Swansea said: “The demonstration will take place as part of coordinated local rallies around the UK this weekend following hundreds of such demonstrations since the War on Gaza began.

“National demonstrations have also attracted numbers of up to one million people in London in recent weeks.

Organisers, Stop The War Pembrokeshire and Solidarity with Palestine Pembrokeshire said: “Who would ever think that as campaigners we would have to resort to staging a protest which includes a mock funeral and laying shrouded dead bodies?

“It seems unfathomable and so desperately sad that we are forced to organise such a macabre protest.

“However, we have no choice and we are acting on the wishes of our Palestinian sisters, brothers and comrades who are dying at this very moment at the hands of Israel’s murderous Genocide.

“Stephen Crabb and Simon Hart are very much mistaken if they think we will ‘go away’ - in fact the opposite is true, as international pressure mounts against Israel’s war crimes. Crabb and Hart will be judged by history over their current support for Israel's Genocide in Gaza.”