More than 100 activists in the Dubai Expo City where this year’s COP28 UN climate summit is being held have taken part in a protest to call for a ceasefire in Gaza, Reuters reports.

The protests are unusual to see in the United Arab Emirates where freedom of expression is limited, but as hosts of the annual UN conference, the UAE is allowing protests to take place at COP28 itself.

Holding banners calling for a “ceasefire” and “climate decolonisation”, activists chanted “Free, Free Palestine”.

“We are seeking an end to the siege, end to the occupation,” Palestinian-American Tariq Luthun told Reuters after taking part in an earlier, smaller demonstration calling for a ceasefire.

Jacob Maurice Johns, an Indigenous activist from North America, said Palestinian voices were being silenced and needed the world to stand in solidarity with them.