Tens of thousands of people are taking part in a nationwide demonstration in support of Palestine by marching through Dublin’s downtown, reports RTE.
Around 1:30pm on Saturday, the protest moved out of Parnell Square and proceeded down one side of O’Connell Street before crossing the river into D’Olier Street.
There’s going to be music and talks on a stage by the Department of Foreign Affairs.
According to the organisers, just 50,000 people are participating, making it smaller than the 100,000 participants in a prior nationwide demonstration in support of Palestine, reports RTE.
Leading the march is Karen Gearon, a former shop steward with the Dunnes Stores Strikers, a group that opposed apartheid in South Africa in the 1980s.
“We come here together as we have for five months all over the country in pain, anger, grief, and in rejection of the atrocities that is against the Palestinian people,” Zoe Lawlor, Vice Chair of the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign, said to the assembly. Our mission is to oppose forced starvation, ethnic cleansing, genocide, and Israeli apartheid.
At least 50,000 people, and potentially as many as 60,000, are present at the St. Stephen’s Green rally, according to the organisers.
Participating civil society organisations in Ireland number over 80, reports RTE.
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