Workers Party of Ireland and Workers Party Youth join Saturday’s massive demonstration for Palestine

On Saturday, 19 July 2025, members of the Workers Party of Ireland and Workers Party Youth joined the Demonstration for Palestine in Dublin in which tens of thousands of people marched through the city centre in solidarity with the just cause of the Palestinian people and calling for the Central Bank of Ireland to stop funding genocide through the facilitation of the sale of Israeli bonds.

As the most recent Israeli blockade on Gaza stretches beyond 140 days, over 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza face starvation as the Zionist regime in Israel continues to block nearly all aid from entering Gaza. Hospitals are on the brink of collapse and Palestinians seeking aid at the US-Israeli run so-called “Gaza Humanitarian Foundation” aid sites continue to be slaughtered.

Over the past week, Israeli forces have continued to carry out heavy bombardment from the air, land and sea across the Gaza Strip, issued additional displacement orders, and further expanded ground operations. Since 18 March, the Israeli military has issued 55 displacement orders for 297.6 square kilometres (81 per cent of the Gaza Strip). With no safe place to go, many people have sought refuge in overcrowded displacement sites, makeshift shelters, damaged buildings, streets and open areas. People have been confined to ever-shrinking spaces.

Between 9 and 16 July, 648 Palestinians were killed, and 2,198 were injured. Between 7 October 2023 and 16 July 2025, at least 58,573 Palestinians were killed, and 139,607 Palestinians were injured.

Between 8 and 10 July, at least three schools sheltering internally displaced people were reportedly hit, including some that had already been struck in the previous week. The attacks resulted in the reported killing of 17 people, the injury of others, and the displacement of dozens of families.

The Medical Aid for Palestine’s life-saving Solidarity Polyclinic was forced to close after the Israeli military issued forced displacement orders in the southwest areas of Deir al-Balah City. MAP personnel were forced to evacuate immediately, unable to relocate critical supplies and equipment.

In response to this humanitarian emergency, twelve countries have officially committed to an arms embargo on Israel, pledging to block shipments of arms, dual use items, and military fuel, and to review public contracts that finance the occupation. However, the USA, European Union and the UK remains complicit in the genocide. The pro-Zionist “Labour” government in Britain instead of taking action to uphold international law and sanction Israel, is committed to attacking expressions of solidarity with the Palestinian people, targeting not the perpetrators of genocide but those protesting against genocide.

The WPI and WPY will continue their active solidarity with the peoples of the West Bank and Gaza and with the Palestinian people’s and just struggle for their legitimate and inalienable rights to self-determination and an independent sovereign state of Palestine. The WPI and WPY extend continuing support and solidarity to our comrade parties in the region.