A demonstration to highlight the ongoing bombing of Gaza will be take place in Blackburn this weekend.

The "Gaza Peace Gathering" will be held on the steps of the town hall on Sunday, April 28 from 2pm.

Organisers said they are inviting all "humanitarians to protest against the genocide in Gaza".

Weekly pro-Palestine demonstrations have continued throughout the past seven months and in Blackburn these have been centred outside Barclays Bank on Darwen Street. 

Further demonstrations have been taking place outside BAE Systems and weapons manufacturers and through Manchester city centre on an almost weekly basis.

It comes after the UN's human rights chief has said he is "horrified" by the destruction of Gaza's Nasser and al-Shifa hospitals and reports of mass graves after raids by Israeli soldiers.

Volker Türk called for independent investigations into the deaths.

Palestinian officials said they had exhumed 283 bodies at Nasser, some with their hands tied. It is not clear how they died or when they were buried.

The Israeli military appears to be preparing for a long-expected offensive on the city of Rafah in southern Gaza, where hundreds of thousands of people have taken refuge from the bombings.