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Healthcare workers march for Gaza in Dublin
IN DUBLIN'S CITY centre, healthcare workers gathered holding placards and Palestinian flags to protest against Israel's onslaught in the besieged Gaza Strip.
The protestors, organised by Irish Healthcare Workers for Palestine, began their march in solidarity with their colleagues in Gaza and their patients at 1pm this afternoon, beginning from outside the RCSI on St Stephen's Green.
A number of traditional Irish musicians played for the protestors before they began. They walked in silence down Grafton Street.
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Irish healthcare workers Gemma Healy with Laura Gilen from Mayo and Denise Donnellan from Galway at Stephen's Green.
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Sasko Lazarov / © / ©
A spokesperson for the organising group said that they were marching against Israel's killing of healthcare workers in Gaza and the starvation of civilians within the territory.
'Our healthcare colleagues in Gaza are being killed, abducted, tortured and starved – because they are healthcare workers. We are watching them die before our eyes, collapsing at work, telling their children to lick salt to stave off hunger.
'We are watching them trying to mend the broken wasted bodies of patients who can't heal because they are so malnourished.'
Sasko Lazarov / ©
Sasko Lazarov / © / ©
The group said that there was little they could do without the support of the government, and called on the government to take further action on the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
Among their requests was a call to enact the Occupied Territories Bill, which has been repeatedly delayed and revised since its introduction in 2018 by Senator Frances Black. The bill would ban trade with illegal Israeli settlements.
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