Newport City Council has called for a joint pension fund to consider any links to the conflict in Gaza.

Cllr Dimitri Batrouni, the council leader, said the call for a review was about ensuring “ethical investments”.

It is one of five councils belonging to the Greater Gwent Pension Fund, which campaigners allege has links to firms connected to Israel’s actions in Palestine.

Those campaigners have called for the pension fund to sever any such ties, and on Tuesday a small group of demonstrators gathered again outside the Civic Centre, waving Palestinian flags and handing out leaflets to councillors.

Inside the council chamber, Labour councillor Allan Screen presented a motion supporting UK Government calls for an immediate ceasefire, the resumption of humanitarian aid into Gaza, and the immediate........

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