10s of countless individuals went to a National Demonstration for Palestine in Dublin this afternoon.
Event at the Garden of Remembrance at 1pm, protestors marched towards the Department of Foreign Affairs near St Stephen’s Green Park, calling for an end to Israel’s war on Gaza.
Amongst the groups represented are Gaza Action Ireland, Academics for Palestine, and Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC).
SIPTU, Forsa, Irish Artists for Palestine and trainee unions throughout Ireland likewise participated in the march.
This is the 4th National Demonstration like this considering that October and took control of an hour to pass O’Connell Street.
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Protestors are requiring Israel to deal with effects for the killing of civilians in Palestine.
There was a substantial Garda existence as demonstrators march to the Department of Foreign Affairs on Harcourt Street.
IPSC member and Palestinian refugee Fadl Mustapha stated Irish individuals need to stop “pussyfooting” on Israel’s barrage of Gaza.
“I am in fact personally fed up with individuals abstaining since there is no pussyfooting any longer,” he stated.
“You’re either revealing uniformity with the Palestinian individuals to stop this genocide and massacre or if you’re not, in my viewpoint, you’re racist.”
ISPC vice-Chair Zoe Lawlor informed the crowds protestors “come here together as we have for 5 months all over the nation in discomfort in anger in sorrow and in rejection of the atrocities that protests the Palestinian individuals”.
“We are here to state no to genocide, no to ethnic cleaning no to required hunger … no to Israeli apartheid,” she stated.
Other presentations for Palestine occurred in Ennis, Cork, Armagh, Drogheda, Skibbereen, Clonakilty, Youghal, Carrick-on-Shannon and Waterford.
Demonstrations likewise happened worldwide, with a presentation in London anticipated to see approximately 250,000 individuals going to.