PROTESTORS gathered in Belfast this afternoon to continue calls for a ceasefire in Gaza.
The “Christmas Chanukah for Palestine” was organised by the Belfast Palestine Solidarity Campaign and Jews for Palestine - Ireland.
Marching from Writer’s Square to Erskine House, the headquarters of the Northern Ireland Office, the protestors carried pictures of children that have died in the conflict and sang a chorus of “not in my name.”
This included Tamim (5), with a message claiming he was “scared to death by Israeli bombs” and one-year old Joud who was “trapped to death under the rubble.”
Solidarity in Belfast city centre today
Posted by Belfast Palestine Solidarity Campaign IPSC on Saturday, December 21, 2024
The health ministry in Gaza has estimated that 45,206 people have been killed in the 14 months since the October 7 Hamas attacks on southern Israel killed around 1,200.
On Friday, it was reported that an Israeli airstrike on a residential building central Gaza killed at least seven Palestinians, including four children and injuring 16 others.
The strike hit an apartment in the Jaffa residential tower in the built-up Nuseirat refugee camp.
The Israeli military did not immediately comment on the strike, but blamed Hamas for civilian deaths as their fighters operate in residential areas.
