- PEACE GROUPS TO MARK 300 DAYS OF GAZA GENOCIDE THIS FRIDAY
- IMMEDIATE PERMANENT CEASEFIRE IS ESSENTIAL
- THERE MUST BE NO ESCALATION INTO A WIDER REGIONAL WAR
- IRISH GOVERNMENT MUST FINALLY SANCTION ISRAEL
Multiple peace groups will gather at Dáil Eireann at 5pm this coming Friday, 02 August to commemorate the 300th day of Israel’s brutal genocide against the people of Gaza.
We are asking people to dress in dark clothes if possible, hold a flower and march slowly in silence in groups of three wide to the Spire on O Connell Street to join a vigil with several minutes of silence and lighting of candles, followed by speeches, chants and music.
The event is co-organized by the following groups:
- Mothers Against Genocide
- Pals for Palestine
- Irish Creative Arts for Palestine
- Apartheid Free Arts
- The Union of Students in Ireland
- Irish Artists for Palestine
- Teachers for Palestine
- Irish Occupational Therapists for Palestine
- Irish Health Care Workers for Palestine
- Irish Psychologists for Palestine
- The Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign
- The Irish Anti-war Movement
More than 70 children were murdered each day by Israel in Gaza for the last 300 days.
We are calling on all people disgusted by Israel’s genocide in Gaza to join us this Friday.
In the last week alone, the following happened:
- Israeli strikes targeted and killed Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent Ismail al-Ghoul and cameraman Rami as-Rifi in Gaza city on Wednesday
- Healthcare officials declared a Polio epidemic throughout Gaza
- Extreme right-wing Israelis, including Government ministers, violently protested against the arrest of Israeli soldiers charged with multiple rapes of Palestinian prisoners in detention centres
- Israel extrajudicially executed Hamas leader and peace negotiator Ismail Haniyeh and Hezbollah’s Fuad Shukri along with five civilians in Tehran and Beirut respectively
- Several countries, including Germany and the US, advised their citizens to leave Lebanon
- Scores of Gazan civilians have been killed as schools where they were sheltering and residential areas were targeted by Israeli missile strikes
- Thousands of Gazans were forced to move again searching desperately for safety
- As many as 130,000 Palestinian men, women and children may have been killed by Israel since 7th October 2023
Sara O Rourke, Chair of the Steering Committee of the IAWM said:
“It is horrifying that we are commemorating 300 days of murder and destruction against the people of Gaza and the West Bank. But it’s still business as usual for Western political leaders, even following the provocative assassinations in Tehran and Beirut. American, German and British leaders have all come out in the last day saying how they still support Israel. We demand that the Irish Government finally imposes diplomatic and economic sanctions on the rogue state of Israel.”
Jim Roche, PRO of the Steering Committee of the IAWM said:
“While the media has focused in recent days on the serious, gangster-style double assassinations by Israel in Beirut and Tehran and the killings of teenagers in Majdal Shams in the occupied Golan Heights, we must bring the focus back to Gaza.
Tens of Gazans are still being killed by Israel each day, journalists are wilfully targeted and murdered, schools sheltering desperate refugees are regularly bombed killing men, women, and children, thousands of Gazans are forced to flee for the umpteenth time from one unsafe area to another every day with many being killed as they flee, children are being deliberately starved with many having died already, and now there is a Polio epidemic throughout Gaza. All of this has been created by Israel with the support of Western powers – particularly the US and Germany – in its clear attempt to annihilate the people of Gaza. It now tries to inflame the whole region and draw America into a wider conflict partly to distract from its genocidal war crimes in Gaza.
We will join various groups to hold a march and vigil to remember our dead Palestinian brothers and sisters solemnly, and to show solidarity with those still living and struggling for justice. We hope that people in Ireland who are concerned will join all the groups at 5pm at the Dáil this Friday.”
