Pro-Palestine protesters have sprayed red paint on the front of a Barclays branch in Brighton over they say are the bank's links to "Israel's apartheid and genocide".

In footage posted on social media by activist group Brighton and Hove Palestine Solidarity Campaign, the branch's historic facade and signage were smeared with red paint in dramatic images resembling a range of similar pro-Palestine protests in the past.

The vandalism comes as Palestinians and allies commemorate May 15's "Nakba Day", the date the Israeli Declaration of Independence was made.