PALESTINE campaigners held a mass die-in outside the Senedd today to coincide with First Minister questions.

Hundreds of campaigners lay on the steps outside the Welsh Parliament in sympathy with Palestinians killed in Israel’s genocide.

The Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) Cymru action follows the Pledge for Palestine campaign ahead of Ma’s Senedd election, when candidates were asked to commit to supporting Palestinian rights.

About 70 per cent of the Plaid Cymru cabinet backed measures including boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS).

PSC Cymru’s Bethan Sayed said: “Nearly 40 per cent of our new Senedd, and 70 per cent of the Cabinet, pledged to stand with the Palestinian people. 

“We are calling on the Welsh government to urgently review its public procurement and bring forward BDS measures to end complicity and ensure Wales is a globally responsible nation.”

A Plaid Cymru spokesperson said: “The Plaid Cymru government is committed to ensuring public procurement reflects our ethical and human rights obligations and supporting humanitarian relief efforts.

“We will use Wales’s voice to press the incoming UK prime minister to uphold international law and do all it can to help bring an end to the suffering in Gaza and secure a lasting and just peace.”

Welsh Green leader Anthony Slaughter told demonstrators that the Welsh government must support the BDS against Israel, and look at its own procurement spending at every level of government.

“The Welsh government must speak out with its loudest voice and use all of its powers, including procurement, to act against the genocide in Gaza,” Mr Slaughter said.

Amnesty International’s Glenn Page said that the next prime minister, Andy Burnham, had conceded that the Labour government has got some things wrong on Gaza and expressed regret.