Sligo’s latest show of solidarity with people of Palestine and Gaza takes place this weekend
AS the war on Gaza further escalates members and supporters of the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign in Sligo will hold a vigil outside Sligo’s General Post Office, on this coming Saturday afternoon (December 16) at 3pm.
Speaking to the “Sligo Weekender” spokesperson Aine Daly, said, “We now need to express our collective horror at the genocidal war Israel is inflicting on the people of Gaza – and to call for the United States and the European Union to end its support for this barbarism.
“We are witnessing unrelenting horror in Gaza. Palestinians have been bombed, displaced, deprived of food, water, fuel, electricity, and health services for almost 10 weeks.
“The amount of destruction has been compared to that of German cities in World War Two, except it’s happened in a far shorter time.
“The scale of this catastrophe is so great that in a rare move, the United Nations Secretary-General invoked Article 99 of the U.N. Charter, one of the most powerful tools at his disposal – urging the body to help end carnage in the war-battered enclave through a lasting humanitarian ceasefire.
“The resolution tabled at the U.N. on Friday last (December 8), calling for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire was vetoed by the United States. “President Biden and the U.S. administration are now clearly complicit in war crimes by continuing to provide the Israeli regime with massive shipments of armaments and by constantly undermining all efforts to bring about a humanitarian ceasefire. “This weekend, ordinary people across Ireland will come out again to show the vast majority of them support a permanent ceasefire.
“They will show their solidarity with Palestinians who are experiencing unbearable suffering. They will also demand the root causes are not forgotten – Israel’s decades-long military occupation of Palestinian territories and its system of apartheid against Palestinians. We demand justice for the Palestinian people – their right to self-determination and to live in freedom, dignity and with equality,” she said.