University staff and students are planning a walkout in protest against the conflict in Gaza.

People at the University of Sussex will join hundreds of other institutions nationwide in this walkout, which is set to take place at 11.30am on Wednesday, February 7  on the Falmer campus.

Students will then protest outside the L3 Harris factory in Home Farm Business Park, in Moulsecoomb, at 12.30pm.

The factory has been a key site for protests due to its manufacturing of bomb racks used in fighter jets by the Israeli military.

This is part of the  "Workplace Day of Action" declared by the Stop the War Coalition and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament groups.

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Unions, including the Universities and Colleges Union (UCU),have backed the walkout.

Sussex University’s Anti-Racism Working Group and the university's student union are also in support.

The University of Sussex is one of hundreds set to take part.