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Demonstrators in Dublin today.

Thousands take part in march in support of Palestine in Dublin

Demonstrators called on the Government to enact sanctions against Israel.

CROWDS TOOK TO the streets of Dublin days after the new coalition administration was made official, calling on the Government to place sanctions on Israel.

Thousands took part in the march in support of Palestine today, RTÉ reports

The Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) led the gathering from the Garden of Remembrance on Parnell Square across the city centre to Leinster House, where the Government sits, for a rally. The march also condemned Israel’s actions in Gaza.

Senator Alice-Mary Higgins said all the marches and actions in Ireland in solidarity send a strong message to the Government that “words are not enough”.

She called for action from the Government, including not allowing Israel to use Irish airspace to transport weapons.

IPSC chairperson Zoe Lawlor welcomed the “fragile ceasefire in place in Gaza”, but voiced her concern over how many Palestinians have been killed and conditions for those who remain there.

“Western governments have allowed this to happen – whether by actively facilitating Apartheid Israel’s brutal onslaught, or by doing absolutely nothing to stop it,” she said.

“Ireland is a case in point; before even taking office, the new Government is already bowing to pressure from the Trump regime and vowing to sideline the Occupied Territories Bill, while endorsing the viciously anti-Palestinian and free speech curbing IRHA ‘definition’ of antisemitism, opposed by human rights organisations around the world, including Amnesty and Human Rights Watch.”

Last year, the outgoing Government committed to enacting the Occupied Territories Bill, which would ban trade with Israeli settlements deemed in breach of international law.

However, returning Taoiseach Micheál Martin said the bill – which was first introduced by Independent Senator Frances Black in 2018 – would be scrapped and a new bill would likely be introduced to replace it. 

With reporting from Cormac Fitzgerald 

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