A protest group is targeting factories across the UK to call for "an immediate, permanent ceasefire" in the Isreal and Gaza conflict.

Workers for a Free Palestine is targeting sites in Bournemouth, Lancashire, Brighton and Glasgow.

A spokesperson from the group said: "Over 1000 trade unionists at multiple sites across Britain are blockading arms factories that are supplying arms to Israel!

"Today trade unionists have shut down 4 sites in Britain which produce components for the F-35 fighter jet currently being used in Israel's bombardment of Gaza."

Protesters are targeting the site in Wimborn, in Dorset

One of the sites targeted was in Wimborne, where banners were unveiled with the group chanting "Shame".

A spokesperson from the group said: "All three entrances to Eaton Mission Systems have been SHUT DOWN!

"The company an open export licence to export goods for the F-35 aircraft.

"The factory currently being blockaded makes the F-35's in-flight refuelling probe at its facility in Wimborne."

The group is targeting sites across the UK

The group also claimed that counterparts in mainland Europe in France, the Netherlands and Denmark are performing similar action.

They said they wanted: "An end to the British government's complicity in Israel's war crimes, including through arms sales, an immediate, permanent ceasefire [and] an end to the occupation of Palestine."