Vigil held in Dublin in solidarity with journalists in Gaza

A vigil is being held at the Spire on Dublin’s O’Connell Street in solidarity with journalists in Gaza.

The Dublin protest was organised after five journalists were killed in an Israeli strike on Nasser Hospital in Gaza on Monday.

Among the journalists killed were those working for The Associated Press, Al Jazeera, Reuters and UK-based media outlet Middle East Eye.

It comes weeks after prominent Al Jazeera correspondent Anas al-Sharif, 28, and four of his colleagues were killed while sheltering outside al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City on August 10.

At the Dublin event organised by the National Union of Journalists (NUJ), reporters and photographers read out the names of more than 240 Palestinian journalists killed.

Dozens of photographers, broadcasters and correspondents from various Irish outlets attended the demonstration.

NUJ assistant general secretary Seamus Dooley said journalists were being killed because they were recording what was happening in Gaza.

“We gather in anger, we gather in sorrow.

“But above all else we gather in solidarity, solidarity with those who have been murdered because they were journalists.”

He added: “That record of the Israeli government is an indictment, and we will never forget that.

“We demand an end to be killing. We demand a ceasefire.”