Bournemouth beach used as giant memorial to highlight child deaths in Gaza

Campaigners have appealed for help as they use a five kilometre stretch of Bournemouth beach to highlight the deaths of children in Gaza.

Accountability group Led by Donkeys is using the tops and bottoms of children’s clothing as a giant memorial to the reported 11,500 Palestinian and Israeli children killed since October 7.

It hopes to keep it there for 24 hours.

A spokesman for the group, James, told Bournemouth One: “We’re really trying to show the scale of what’s happening since it’s very difficult for people to understand these kind of numbers.

“We’ve got a great team of volunteers but we really need more people to come and help us.

“We do lots of different large scale art projections to hold the powerful to account.

“So many children have been killed in Gaza and our own politicians and other governments around the world are really doing nothing to stop it.

“It’s going to take people like us to try and build this very strong visual to wake people up and say that there needs to be a ceasefire.”

The group plans to be on Bournemouth beach, west of the pier, until around 4pm today.

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