A second school walkout calling for a ceasefire in Gaza is expected to take place in Brighton today as adults blockade a Brighton arms factory.
Last month, scores of students left school and congregated in Jubilee Square.
The organisers of that protest, Parents 4 Palestine, said about 60 children joined the protest, mainly from secondary schools but also primary schools and nurseries.
Some of the children were heard chanting “from the river to the sea”, a call often interpreted as calling for the genocide of Israeli jews.
Meanwhile, adults unconnected to the organisers were handing out material calling for an Intifada and saying a two-state solution is not possible.
Many of the older pupils came from Varndean. Yesterday, the school wrote to parents warning them another protest was likely to be held today.
It said: “Whilst we support and promote the freedoms of speech and assembly, we know that these freedoms come with responsibility.
“As a school, we cannot be sure who will be at the protest or which adult they might interact with. Students will need support to reflect critically on this with trusted adults.
“From the information we have, we want families to be aware of the potential risks, even if the likelihood is small. Families need to be able to make informed decisions and safeguard their children.”
It asked parents to let the school know if they gave permission for their children to leave school, but said this would be marked as an unauthorised absence.
It added: “We are working with the Local Authority, other schools and community groups to see how we can help young enquiring minds navigate the events in Palestine and Israel and develop their critical thinking and ultimately kindness and empathy for all.”
Meanwhile, dozens of campaigners protested outside a Brighton defence factory in the latest demonstration against arms being sent to Israel.
The campaign group Workers for a Free Palestine said it had blockaded sites in Bournemouth, Glasgow, Brighton and Lancashire.
In Brighton, a demonstration was held outside L3Harris Release and Integration Solution Ltd (formerly EDO MBM) in Home Farm Road, Moulsecoomb.
Editor’s note: Parents4Palestine Brighton have asked us to make it clear the adults handing out leaflets at the march were not the organisers, and the chants were not led by them. The article has been edited accordingly.
The BBC has seen and heard evidence of rape, sexual violence and mutilation of women during the 7 October Hamas attacks.
Several people involved in collecting and identifying the bodies of those killed in the attack told us they had seen multiple signs of sexual assault, including broken pelvises, bruises, cuts and tears, and that the victims ranged from children and teenagers to pensioners.
Video testimony of an eyewitness at the Nova music festival, shown to journalists by Israeli police, detailed the gang rape, mutilation and execution of one victim.
Videos of naked and bloodied women filmed by Hamas on the day of the attack, and photographs of bodies taken at the sites afterwards, suggest that women were sexually targeted by their attackers.
Few victims are thought to have survived to tell their own stories.
Their last moments are being pieced together from survivors, body-collectors, morgue staff and footage from the attack sites.
Police have privately shown journalists a single horrific testimony that they filmed of a woman who was at the Nova festival site during the attack.
She describes seeing Hamas fighters gang rape a woman and mutilate her, before the last of her attackers shot her in the head as he continued to rape her.
In the video, the woman known as Witness S mimes the attackers picking up and passing the victim from one to another.
“She was alive,” the witness says. “She was bleeding from her back.”
She goes on to detail how the men cut off parts of the victim’s body during the assault.
“They sliced her breast and threw it on the street,” she says. “They were playing with it.”
The victim was passed to another man in uniform, she continues.
“He penetrated her, and shot her in the head before he finished. He didn’t even pick up his pants; he shoots and ****.”
These school demonstrations are really sick and twisted – everyone knows they are not about “peace” or “reconciliation” but really about unhinged anti-Jewish and anti-western hatred, pure and simple. Same with the demos against those companies – these people always target just 2 countries, the US and Israel. Pathetic.
I wonder if adults pretending to be kids involved in the protest will be all over comment section again?
Brighton Social Services must investigate child grooming by adults for political purposes.
OFSTED must do emergency inspections of schools unable to prevent unauthorized absences by school kids.
This is tax payers money being abused by extremists.
Police must arrest & prosecute adults & kids involved in racist antiemetic acts.
Are the teachers and parents describing the terrible atrocities committed on Israelii citizens by Hamas? Did they show them, on the news, the celebrations carried out by Palestinians soon after the vent? Surely the children should be learning about truth, not the lies perpetuated by an evil regime. Such hypocrisy is sickening.
Are the schools fining the parents of these children for unauthorised absences or do they not care?
Momentum hard at work still recruiting the hamasjugende
All who do not attend school then their parents should be fined I don’t pay my taxes for these idiots not to attend something that I am paying for
Parents get fined if they take the kids one day out of school for a holiday so definitely agree a fine and also detention to come in Saturday morning. Then let’s see how many students still want to attend. If they had anything between their ears they would be demonstrating for Hamas to be wiped out for the benefit of the Palestinians. Hundreds of peace loving students were killed and mutilated at the music festival where are they demonstrating for them and what about those still being kept in terrible conditions as hostages. Ignorance is bliss and so is bunking a day off school!!
What Hamass did is beyond anyones understanding and what is happening there now also is beyond anyones understanding.What the answer to it is nobody has any real answers.Israel will never be able to deal with Hamass these people a % of them have already gone from Palestine The rest will just destroy Palestine by encouraging the bombing and there is no way that they can care about the Palastinian people what they have done is got the world behind them.Israel cannot posssibly justifye there overhall reactions with pictures of bulldozers going through Hospital the whole thing is just disgusting where do Hamass fit in all that is hapening in the long run is they will get bigger.This war is digusting but i cannot believe israel believes in its end game what has been done to the people at that kibutze is not terrorisem its a group of warped sick people and what is there end game who are these people if they can do that how do you deal with people who are sick as that doese it justyfie all this death and horror that is hapening now a situasion controlled by Hammass.they dont represent anything apart from a group of people who are very sick by there behaviour they will breed more.The settlers are also just people who take from Palestine yet Israele doese nothing to them it is a disaster where Israele is justyfying bringing so much misery feeding the Hamess political machine.Israel doese have its part to play prior to October by creating a ghetto of Palestinians.