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Protest calling for South Yorkshire Pensions Authority to divest from investments in arms companies supplying Israel, outside the authority's annual meeting in Barnsley on June 5, 2025. Picture: Angela Martin

Thousands call for halt to pension fund investment in Israel and arms firms

Sheffield Heeley Labour MP Louise Haigh has called for immediate government sanctions on the "genocidal regime" of Israel in the House of Commons. Picture supplied by Labour Party

MP calls for sanctions against “genocidal regime” of Israel

Musheir El-Farra of Sheffield Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid outside Sheffield Town Hall on Friday, November 29, 2024, when the Palestine flag flew over the building. Picture: Julia Armstrong, LDRS

Palestine activists call for Labour MPs and councillors to resign

Sheffield’s Tramlines Festival has written an open letter in response to backlash against its business partner Superstruct’s parent company KKR’s alleged ties to Israeli developments in the West Bank

Tramlines pens open letter after national backlash

Dr Julie Pearn, chair of Sheffield Labour Friends of Palestine, speaking at a meeting of Sheffield City Council in February. Picture: Julia Armstrong, LDRS

Ethical banking challenge to council over Israel and arms firms

Members of Parliament gather with Yuan Yang (centre left) and Abtisam Mohamed (centre right) in Westminster Hall in the Houses of Parliament, London, to show support for the two Labour MPs who were denied entry to Israel are on their way home to the UK. Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire

Northern Lights: In solidarity with Abtisam Mohamed, and with all the people of ...

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has come under fire for her response to Sheffield MP Abtisam Mohamed's deportation from Israel when visiting as part of a parliamentary delegation.

Kemi Badenoch under fire for response to Sheffield MP's trip to Israel

A picture sent from the Palestinian West Bank city of Nablus by recent Sheffield visitor Amjad Refaie, showing Israeli troops carrying out an operation

Call to MPs to take action on Israel conflict following operation in West Bank

The Little Match Girl. Credit Phil Conrad

When are world leaders going to hear the prophetic words of God and take heed?

Four men have been found guilty after a Yorkshire company was used to launder millions of pounds of criminal money.

Four men sentenced in 'eye-watering' £200m money laundering plot

Palestine protesters holding up banners in the public gallery at Sheffield Town Hall during the annual meeting of Sheffield City Council on May 15, 2024. Picture: Julia Armstrong, LDRS

Council backs ethical pensions investment in “landmark” decision

A rally outside Sheffield Town Hall on Friday, November 29, 2024, an international day of solidarity with the Palestinian people, when the Palestine flag flew over the building. Picture: Julia Armstrong, LDRS

Day of protests by campaigners to mark flying of Palestine flag over town hall

Knockout recovery for brave 14-year-old 'wonder kid' from Sheffield

Demonstrators outside Sheffield Town Hall on March 6, 2024, when a 7,500-signature petition on the war in Gaza was presented to Sheffield City Council. Picture: Sheffield Palestine Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid

Call to fly Palestine flag over town hall on day of international solidarity

Coun Tom Hunt, the leader of Sheffield City Council, has renewed his call for a ceasefire in the Middle East. Picture: Sheffield Council webcast

Green and Labour councillors clash over Middle East conflict

Threads, the chilling 1984 BBC drama about nuclear armageddon, was filmed in Sheffield and featured many locals as extras

Why chilling BBC drama filmed in city still cuts so deep 40 years on

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At a debate on whether Sheffield could be declared an “Israeli Apartheid Free Zone”, petitioners and members of the council were told it would have no practical effect doing so.

Sheffield as an ‘Israeli Apartheid Free Zone’ would have no practical effect

Esther Allen pictured inside an air raid shelter in Israel.

Mum forced to take out loan for skin cancer treatment in Israel

Family and friends are desperately fundraising for Esther to undergo potentially life-saving cancer treatment in Israel.

Mum to begin possibly life-saving treatment for skin cancer in Israel

Children in Gaza run through rubble in solidarity with Sheffield group

All the windows of the Barclays Bank branch in the centre of Bristol have been smashed and graffiti sprayed over them in a co-ordinated attack by a group targeting the bank.

Watch: Activists smash up Barclays branches and cover in red paint

Barclays Bank, Pinstone Street, doors boarded up after nationwide attacks by protesters.

City centre bank vandalised by protesters

Dronfield family Esther and Chris Allen with their daughter Heidi, aged 14.

“I'm going to a war zone to try and save my life”

Annie O'Gara of the Sheffield Palestine Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid speaking at a rally held outside Sheffield Town Hall to mark Nakba Day (May 15) and the annual meeting of Sheffield City Council. Picture: Julia Armstrong, LDRS

Palestine group accuse council of ripping up code of conduct over complaints

Proud dad Bernie with his twins in Newcastle

Heartbreak defeat - but Sheffield twins will bounce back

The teenage Sheffield boxer who fights Cystic Fibrosis

Thousands of Palestine supporters join march in London

Watch: Palestine supporters gather before arrest over Nazi flag

Demonstrators outside Sheffield Town Hall on March 6, 2024, when a 7,500-signature petition on the war in Gaza was presented to Sheffield City Council. Picture: Sheffield Palestine Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid

Palestine campaigners quiz May 2 council election candidates on war in Gaza

Sheffield general election candidates for the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition, Mick Suter and Isabelle France. Picture: TUSC

Socialist group stands aside in election in favour of pro-Gaza independent

Sheffield Green Party councillor Alexi Dimond has written an open letter to Liberal Democrat party leaders to complain about accusations made to him by LibDem councillor Joe Otten. Picture: Skywall Photography

Green accuses LibDem of “abusive, defamatory and discriminatory” comments

Cllr Joe Otten said he wouldn't support the council to join the Sheffield Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid group.

Shouting at meeting over Sheffield Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid group

Sheffield Town Hall

Council is not joining the Sheffield Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid

Lena Mussa and Sahar Awadallah, Palestinian refugees living in South Yorkshire, took part in a protest camp outside Barclays Bank in Sheffield city centre. Picture: Jon Cowley

Palestine protesters challenge council for banking with Barclays

File photo of graffiti. The number of hate crimes against Jewish people in South Yorkshire rose sharply compared to previous years in the weeks following the October 7 attacks and the outbreak of the war in Palestine.

Spike in antisemitism in South Yorkshire following war in Gaza

Free Palestine protest outside Sheffield Town Hall on November 1, when Sheffield City Council voted to call for a ceasefire in the Gaza conflict. Picture: LDRS

Anti-war protest set to go ahead in city centre

Sahar Awadullah (left) and Lena Mussa have slept in a tent outside Sheffield Town Hall since January 5 in their campaign for the UK Government to call for a ceasefire in the Israel Palestine War. At the time of this picture, Lena has not eaten in five days.

Hunger strike pains are 'not even a portion' of suffering in Gaza

Woman mounts hunger strike in city over Israel-Palestine war

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