Some 20,000 children estimated to be lost, detained or buried under Gaza’s rubble, Israel-Palestine Solidarity Campaign chair tells crowd
Some 20,000 children estimated to be lost, detained or buried under Gaza’s rubble, Israel- Palestine Solidarity Campaign chair tells crowd Members of the Ireland- Palestine Solidarity Campaign take part in the demonstration in Dublin city centre on Saturday.
Photograph: Alan Betson/The Irish TimesLoudspeaker-led chants calling for the immediate introduction of sanctions against Israel mixed with noise from drums, bodhrans and car alarms as the march made its way from Parnell Square to Molesworth Street, to a rally facing Leinster House. A cheer leader led the protesters in chants calling for the freedom of Palestine “from the river to the sea” and the immediate introduction of sanctions against Israel, for almost an hour, as the marchers filed into Molesworth Street from Dawson Street.Gaza: Israeli strikes kill at least 48 in ongoing clashes ahead of polio vaccination campaignMs Lawlor said the “official figure of 40,000 dead includes 17,000 children”. She said more than 20,000 children were estimated to be lost, detained or buried under rubble.she said: “With 7 per cent of Gaza’s children now murdered, lost or wounded, it’s clear that children are deliberate targets of apartheid Israel’s genocidal onslaught.”request to the Attorney General to review trade agreements with Israel she said: “We don’t need reviews ... We need sanctions.”said while the march showed “there’s huge support among the population for justice, for the Palestinians, for a ceasefire, for the an end to the occupation, unfortunately, still, the rhetoric that we hear from Government is not matched by foreign action. “It’s now time for sanctions, not to talk about them, not to take advice, but to act. Government has had opportunity after opportunity to back the occupied territories legislation, to take action in terms of divestment, and they failed, and that failure now needs to cease.”Violent disturbance at property on Dublin quays leads to one arrest‘She couldn’t have done better’: Leaving Cert student with maximum points misses out on college course due to lotteryFlorida politician lashes Ireland as ‘anti-Semitic country’ in row with governor over football game visitSpringboks leave it late before edging All BlacksPremier League: Brentford ease past Southampton, Aston Villa bag win at Leicester
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