Kites will be flown on a Kent beach next weekend to mark the death of Palestinians during the current conflict with Israel.

The mass kite-flying event will take place at Viking Bay in Broadstairs at noon on Saturday, December 23.

Organised by the South East Kent Palestine Solidarity Campaign (Thanet), it was triggered by the death of Gazan poet Refaat Alareer who was killed by an Israeli air strike earlier this month.

Shortly before his death, he penned a poem called ‘If I die’ in which he asks people to remember him by making and flying a white kite.

Hilary Chuter of the campaign group said: “We will be flying white kites in memory of Refaat Alareer and in memory of the thousands of others killed and injured in Gaza since October 7.

Please make a kite and bring it along and as it says in the poem – ‘make it white with a long tail’. We must all do whatever we can to protest against the terrible killings of innocent people which have been going on in Gaza.

“We want an immediate and permanent ceasefire and a mass programme of humanitarian aid.”