Major demonstration in support of Palestine planned for Buncrana next month

A major demonstration to protest the ongoing Israeli attacks on the people of Gaza will be held in Inishowen next month.

Local caring professionals and Church representatives are among those being urged to join the ‘Mourning March for Palestine’ in Buncrana on Saturday, August 9.

The Inishowen branch of the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) has called on professionals, doctors, medics and firemen to attend in uniform, to demonstrate their solidarity with the besieged Gazans.

The group is also calling on journalists and concerned members of the general public to join them.

The ‘Mourning March for Palestine’ will commence at Cockhill Bridge at 3pm on August 9, before proceeding to Buncrana Shorefront, a distance of two kilometres.

IPSC Inishowen branch spokesperson Christine McGillan says the group has been “working tirelessly to highlight the atrocities being committed on Palestinians, both in Gaza and in the West Bank” – and members are calling for an immediate and permanent ceasefire in the region.

“We are all in mourning for the people of Gaza, who are being bombed relentlessly, shot at, burned in tents, buried alive, assassinated and illegally detained. And now they are being intentionally starved to death,” said Ms McGillan.

She says it’s important that as many people as possible support the Buncrana march.

“Along with an invitation to the general public, we urge all journalists to join the march and represent your colleagues who have been murdered. More than 200 journalists have been murdered to date, with many more injured,” Ms McGillan said.

“We call on doctors, nurses, medics, first responders, ambulance drivers, firemen and women, community rescue teams and civil defence teams to please join us in your uniforms and scrubs to show your solidarity to your grieving and wounded colleagues, who have been on the front lines of this hellscape, trying to help and treat the tens of thousands of dead and injured.”

“We further invite teachers and academics, as so many of them have been killed too. Those struggling to stay alive are still trying to teach children and students in makeshift classrooms in unsafe, bombed-out buildings.”.

“We also invite representatives from all Churches and their congregations to please join us,” the Inishowen IPSC spokesperson added.

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The general public is asked to wear black, while the walk will be a silent and mournful procession in remembrance of all those killed.

Ms McGillan further explains: “While we mourn the death of each and every person, young and old, we think of the families struggling to survive without them and all of the injured they have to care for in the total absence of any medical aid.”

“This is an opportunity to let them know that we feel their grief and heartache while they continue to be annihilated, as they are displaced again and again while being deprived of food and water – the very basic rights of all humans.”

The ‘Mourning March’ will leave Cockhill Bridge, follow the Cockhill Road into Buncrana, through the Main Street, and eventually onto the Shore Front, via St Oran’s Road, St Mary’s Road and Shore Lane. Please show your support for this worthy cause.