High street cosmetics firm Lush has shut down its website and closed all its UK stores in what the company says is a pro-Palestine statement of solidarity.

The firm shared an image declaring 'Stop starving Gaza' as it also closed its factories in a one-day gesture.

Lush said in a statement today: 'Across the Lush business we share the anguish that millions of people feel seeing the images of starving people in Gaza, Palestine.

'Like the rest of the world, we struggle to find ways we can help whilst the Israeli government is preventing urgent humanitarian assistance from entering Gaza.

'One thing Lush can currently send into Gaza is our love and a strong message that we stand in solidarity.