{"id":148176,"date":"2025-06-01T01:01:17","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T01:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/148176\/"},"modified":"2025-06-01T01:01:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T01:01:17","slug":"camp-gaza-organisers-invite-public-along-for-24-hour-fundraiser-in-aid-of-palestinians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/148176\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Camp Gaza\u2019 organisers invite public along for 24-hour fundraiser in aid of Palestinians"},"content":{"rendered":"

The event was organised by Derry IPSC (Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign) who said it was an opportunity to \u201cturn our support into action and stand in unity under the stars for justice and peace.\u201d<\/p>\n

It comes as Hamas says it has submitted to the mediators its response on a United States proposal for a Gaza ceasefire deal.<\/a><\/p>\n

Under the deal, 10 living Israeli captives held in Gaza will be freed and 18 bodies returned in exchange for a number of Palestinian prisoners, according to the group.<\/p>\n

The United Nations says the besieged Gaza Strip is the \u201chungriest place on Earth\u201d, adding that the territory\u2019s entire 2.3 million people face \u201ccatastrophic hunger\u201d.<\/p>\n

Catherine Hutton from Derry IPSC posted a video online saying: \u201cWe’re down here at our camp out for Palestine today at Free Derry Corner.<\/p>\n

\u201cPlease come along if you can, come and support us. We’re raising money for Fund a Food Drop and also for the Hind Rajab Foundation and we’d love people to come along and join in and show some solidarity with us.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou don’t have to stay out all night, you can just come along and support us and if any of these are singers or musicians, if you would like to join us as well and share a few tunes with us.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have lots of merch here and we have tea, coffee and some food and plenty of people to sit and talk to and to share in the solidarity that we’re showing today for the people of Gaza.\u201d<\/p>\n

Councillors in attendance included Shaun Harkin from People Before Profit, Independent republican Gary Donnelly and Catherine McDaid from the SDLP.<\/p>\n

Mrs McDaid said: \u201cIt shouldn\u2019t matter what your political beliefs are\u2026 We\u2019re all human and this is a genocide.\u201d<\/p>\n

Veteran socialist and the man responsible for coining the phrase, \u2018You are now entering Free Derry\u2019 which was painted on the former gable wall, was in attendance too.<\/p>\n

Israel\u2019s war on Gaza has killed at least 54,381 Palestinians and wounded 124,054, according to Gaza\u2019s Health Ministry.<\/p>\n

The Government Media Office updated its death toll to more than 61,700, saying thousands of people missing under the rubble are presumed dead.<\/p>\n

An estimated 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the Hamas-led attacks of October 7, 2023, and more than 200 were taken captive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The event was organised by Derry IPSC (Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign) who said it was an opportunity to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148177,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[1817,22305,2194,835,837,1144,1814,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-148176","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-derry-news","9":"tag-garrett-hargan","10":"tag-gaza","11":"tag-hamas","12":"tag-israel","13":"tag-northern-ireland","14":"tag-palestine","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114605410485070603","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}