March to follow Senedd vote of support for Gaza ceasefire

Senedd

Heartfelt cries from Cardiff Bay for genocide to stop

Tomorrow I hope thousands of people will take to the streets in Cardiff, following Wednesday’s Senedd vote in favour of an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, to support the humanitarian stance taken by Welsh politicians against the genocide caused by Israel in the Palestinian enclave.

In Cardiff Bay on Wednesday 24 members of the Senedd voted in favour of Plaid Cymru’s motion calling for an immediate ceasefire in hostilities, with 19 against and 13 abstentions.

Members on Labour's backbenches — including Jenny Rathbone, John Griffiths and Carolyn Thomas — spoke passionately in favour of an end to the genocide, while in Westminster Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer is coming under growing pressure to echo that plea and demand Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Palestinians ends immediately before more children are brutally slaughtered by Benjamin Netanyahu’s government in Jerusalem... FULL STORY