Hundreds of students from UK’s Luton Sixth Form College have staged a walkout in solidarity with Palestinians killed in Gaza, Al Jazeera reports.

“At exactly 11am on a Saturday in mid-November, hundreds of students from Luton Sixth Form College streamed out of their school, gathering outside in a sea of black, white, and red keffiyehs and Palestinian flags,” the report said.

It said the students carried banners and placards saying “Bombing kids is not self-defence” and “This is no ‘conflict’ it’s genocide”, referring to the Israel-Hamas conflict.

“Student organisers of the rally read out speeches against the conflict,” the report added.

“Yet Israel wasn’t the only target of criticism at the rally: The students were protesting against their college’s links to an arms company that had supplied weapons and advanced military platforms to Israel.”

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