Three members of the Inishowen Palestine Solidarity Campaign are doing a 72-hour fast this week in protest for the people of Palestine.
The hunger strike by Nina Quigley, Christine McGillan and Michaela O’Hara, which began on Tuesday, will finish at midnight on Friday after a planned afternoon demonstration in Carndonagh.
The fast seeks to draw attention to the starvation of Gaza and the Irish Central Bank facilitating the sale of Israel’s war bonds throughout the European Union.
After the government opposed the Israeli War Bonds Bill last week, campaigners are planning a demonstration at the office of Donegal Minister of State Charlie McConalogue in Carndonagh on Friday afternoon.
The group said it will be a “loud and heartfelt protest”.
They said: This is to register our shame and disgust at his voting in favour of the sale of Israeli war bonds through the central bank and at his government’s lack of any effective action against Israel’s genocide in Gaza and expanding violent land-grabbing in the West Bank.”
The three fasting campaigners will also be in attendance and campaigners will paint their hands red to symbolise “how our governments hands run red with the blood of Palestinians”.
Nina Quigley,
Christine McGillan and Michaela O’Hara at the Famine Pot in Buncrana
Campaigners say they are demanding that the Government severely sanction Israel, stressing that words alone are insufficient. They also seek the full enactment of the Occupied Territories Bill before summer, a complete withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza and the West Bank, and an end to apartheid and settler colonialism.
They added: “In the words of Palestinian- American scientist and writer, Susan Abulhawa, ‘If the world were watching the live-streamed systematic annihilation of Jews real time, there would be no debating whether that constituted terrorism or genocide’.”
