{"id":52264,"date":"2025-09-06T09:24:43","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T13:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/thousands-attend-protest-in-belfast-to-show-solidarity-with-palestinians\/06\/09\/2025\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T09:24:43","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T13:24:43","slug":"thousands-attend-protest-in-belfast-to-show-solidarity-with-palestinians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/thousands-attend-protest-in-belfast-to-show-solidarity-with-palestinians\/06\/09\/2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands attend protest in Belfast to &#8216;show solidarity with Palestinians&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Several thousand people are taking part in a Palestine solidarity protest in Belfast demanding sanctions against Israel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The demonstration has been organised by the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign as part of a series of protests in towns and cities on both sides of the Irish border.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In Dublin, protesters are marching from the US embassy to the Department of Foreign Affairs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Other protests are being staged in Londonderry, Galway, Cork, Limerick, Navan, Carlow, and Waterford.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"mb-4 text-xl font-bold md:text-2xl\">&#8216;This is about humanity&#8217;<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"relative mb-4\">\n<div class=\"relative\"><button aria-label=\"View larger image\" class=\"group absolute bottom-3 right-3 size-10 md:size-[50px] lg:inset-0 lg:size-full lg:bg-transparent\" data-ylk=\"elm:expand;itc:1;sec:image-lightbox;slk:lightbox-open;\"><span class=\"absolute bottom-0 right-0 rounded-full bg-white p-3 opacity-100 shadow-elevation-3 transition-opacity duration-300 group-hover:block group-hover:opacity-100 md:p-[17px] lg:bottom-6 lg:right-6 lg:bg-white\/90 lg:p-5 lg:opacity-0 lg:shadow-none\"><svg viewbox=\"0 0 22 22\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"size-4 lg:size-6\" width=\"22\" height=\"22\"><path d=\"M12.372.92c0-.506.41-.916.915-.916L21 0l-.004 7.712a.917.917 0 0 1-1.832 0V3.183l-6.827 6.828-1.349-1.348 6.828-6.828h-4.529a.915.915 0 0 1-.915-.915M1.835 17.816l6.828-6.828 1.349 1.349-6.829 6.827h4.529a.915.915 0 0 1 0 1.831L0 21l.004-7.713a.916.916 0 0 1 1.831 0z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/button><dialog aria-label=\"Modal Dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\" class=\"fixed inset-0 z-4 size-full max-h-none max-w-none bg-white hidden\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"relative text-sm mt-1 pr-2.5\">\n<p>Eftaima Najjair said the people attending the protest gave her &#8220;hope for the future&#8221; [BBC]<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Among those attending the Belfast protest was Eftaima Najjair from Portadown, County Armagh.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Showing solidarity is very important and coming out today, even as a Muslim-Arab lady, looking at all these different people from different places &#8211; young, old, babies, elderly &#8211; it really gives a lot of hope for the future,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;This is about humanity, it not about just the Palestinian people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;It&#8217;s about our humanity and looking at these people who are starving&#8230; just sitting back home doing nothing is not an option,&#8221; Ms Najjair added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;So the least we can do is come out in solidarity and show that we&#8217;re here and that we really care and that we&#8217;re trying our best.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"mb-4 text-xl font-bold md:text-2xl\">Protest outside BBC<\/h2>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Demonstrators at the Belfast protest walked through the city to the BBC NI headquarters to express dissatisfaction at BBC coverage of events in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Israel launched a military campaign in Gaza in response to the Hamas-led 7 October attack in 2023, in which 1,200 people were killed and 251 more were taken hostage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">At least 64,300 people have been killed in Israeli attacks in Gaza since then, according to the territory&#8217;s health ministry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The ministry also said 376 people have died during the war so far as a result of malnutrition and starvation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/thousands-attend-gaza-protest-belfast-125433283.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several thousand people are taking part in a Palestine solidarity protest in Belfast demanding sanctions against Israel. 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