Funeral Procession Held for Gaza in Guildford’s Streets

Published on: 17 Sep, 2025
Updated on: 18 Sep, 2025

Funeral procession for Gaza. Image: West Surrey Palestine Solidarity Campaign

By Esme Campbell

Nearly two hundred people assembled to mourn the deaths of almost 65,000 Palestinian people at a vigil in Guildford High Street on Saturday (September 13).

The funeral procession, at 12.30pm was led by two drummers and followed by a crowd carrying flowers, flags, banners and shroud-wrapped dolls representing the children killed in Gaza.

Image: West Surrey Palestine Solidarity Campaign

After walking down North Street, the procession continued onto Friary Street, before reconvening at the High Street where speeches were given and statements from Palestinian children, collated by Palestine Trauma Centre UK, were read out.

“I want to go to heaven because there is no fear or war, and it has everything,” a speaker read, as well as: “Do the Israeli pilots who bomb children have children?”

The final speaker said: “After the holocaust we said never again. Never again means never again for everyone.”

The procession followed a demonstration the week before, also organised by the West Surrey Palestine Solidarity Campaign, outside Allianz in Guildford on September 6.

Protestors gathered to oppose the insurance company’s alleged involvement with Elbit Systems, they said, which is an Israeli military technology company.

One protester announced: “Allianz is supplying the weapons for Israel to commit every atrocity under the sun.”

“Their profits are soaked in blood,” said another.