Main pic: A section of the crowd at a Pro-Palestine demonstration in Letterkenny last year. Credit: NW NewsPix
Another ‘Vigil for Genocide’ will be held in Letterkenny this Friday.
The event will take place outside An Grianan Theatre between 1pm and 3pm to mark the passing of one year since the beginning of the war on Gaza, which followed the October 7 attacks in Israel.
It will have a particular focus on the 17,000 children who have been ‘slaughtered’ by the Israeli military in the past year, the organisers say.
“The Israeli onslaught has displaced almost the entire population of the territory amid an ongoing blockade that has led to severe shortages of food, clean water and medicine,” they added.
Local artist, Bernadette Hopkins, will be leading a performative arts process using charcoal and involving the names of the names of the children who have been killed since the beginning of the invasion.
“I have artist friends in Gaza who have to make their own charcoal to draw with because they have no other materials to draw with,” she says.
“They are also using wild flowers to make paint with and to give the children some sense of normality.”
The event is being organised by the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign Donegal Branch
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