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Scenes from the protest at the Israeli Embassy last Saturday. Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland

Ex-rugby player Trevor Hogan to speak at 'die-in' Gaza protest in Dublin

The demonstrations will take place outside the Department of Foreign Affairs and Grafton Street this evening.

A PROTEST AGAINST the ongoing situation in Palestine is due to take place in Dublin this evening.

The ‘die-in’ demonstration, which follows Saturday’s protest where several thousand people attended, will feature several speakers including ex-rugby player Trevor Hogan.

Speaking ahead of the event, Hogan said:

This latest brutality is not new. Israel’s criminal destruction of Gaza has been going on for many years, between massacres. The people there are dying a slow, terrible death in front of our eyes. We can no longer turn away.

At Saturday’s protest there was a minor incident at the Israeli embassy when one protester was stopped by gardáí when he tried to get onto the embassy grounds.

Today’s demonstration has been organised by Gaza Action Ireland (GAI), with the support of the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign and the Palestinian Community in Ireland.

Over 500 Palestinians and 29 Israelis have been killed to date.

The ‘die-in’ will take place in two locations, outside the Department of Foreign Affairs on St Stephen’s Green South at 5.30pm and then at the top of Grafton Street after 6pm.

The gardaí told TheJournal.ie that sufficient resources will be put in place to facilitate the peaceful demonstration, as would be normal.

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    Jul 23rd 2014, 7:39 AM

    Unbelievably Israel’s ambassador to the US has just gone on record to say that tje Israeli Army should be given the Nobel peace prize for its ‘unimaginable restraint’ in Gaza. I suppose if Obama can recieve it for a few flowery speeches then anything is possible.
    http://www.timesofisrael.com/dermer-idf-deserves-nobel-peace-prize-for-unimaginable-restraint/

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    Jul 23rd 2014, 7:47 AM

    That’s the mentality of the Israeli government and those that support the ongoing murder of Gaza residents. Comparisons of the horendous German liquidation of the Jews Warsaw gettos comes to mind except to swap the Germans for the Israelis and the Jewish population for the Gaza residents.

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    Jul 23rd 2014, 9:17 AM

    I don,t think the Jews in the Warsaw ghetto were firing thousands of rockets at the Nazis! Hamas are Islamic extremists who are using the population of Gaza as human shields, no country in the world would tolerate this rocket fire.

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    Jul 23rd 2014, 9:20 AM

    Rockets not reaching their targets and doing NO damage.

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    Jul 23rd 2014, 9:31 AM

    Jopmarsy – there is a big bloody difference here . Isreal has been taking land every single day since creation of Isreal. The government is paying Jewish people abroad to move there and live in these new settlements. It’s disgusting.

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    Jul 23rd 2014, 9:33 AM

    And it was Israel that was deemed to be using human shields in 2009 by the Goldstone report, and it found that Hamas was not placing civilians in areas where attacks were being launched or using mosques for military purposes.

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    Jul 23rd 2014, 9:54 AM

    29 standing ovations for Benjamin Netanyahu when he addressed the US congress in 2011. Listen to the filth that he is spouting to all the lap dog’s in the crowd. Israel are a dangerous force with far to much international political influence.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asGvjbfIASA

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    Jul 23rd 2014, 10:55 AM

    @Jopmarsy There was actually an uprising in the Ghetto that lasted a few months.. See even the Jews back then knew what it was like to be oppressed and had to fight back.. Just like the Palestinian’s today… I’m sure the Nazi propaganda machine used similar words to what the Israeli Government use today to excuse the slaughter of innocent civilian’s

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    Jul 23rd 2014, 10:56 AM

    Rockets not reaching targets…. So it’s OK…. Keep on firing Saint Hamas.

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    Jul 23rd 2014, 1:23 PM

    Makes no difference. They knew who they were picking a fight with. Just because you use crap weapons doesn’t mean the other side should just let you fire away.

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    Jul 24th 2014, 12:22 PM

    Heres a video of Trevor’s contribution https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XceJbr59zBk

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    Jul 23rd 2014, 8:39 AM

    I spoke to a friend of mine in Israel the other day. The growing momentum of boycotts frighten the hell out of them. A few Hollywood celebrities are even starting to speak about Gaza, not in a strong way but it’s a start. We need more people like Trevor Hogan to speak out and more journalist like Robert Fisk to speak truthfully about the history of the conflict when referring to the current crisis.

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    Jul 23rd 2014, 8:49 AM

    Well said!

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    Jul 23rd 2014, 10:03 AM

    A people that comprehend the concept of ‘chosen’ on a land that they have ‘chosen’ require a place in the world where their surival is constantly under threat….this is their book.

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    Jul 23rd 2014, 3:46 PM

    Here here

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    Jul 23rd 2014, 7:40 PM

    Hollywood actors speaking out against Israel or the Jews must be prepared to never work again. Think mel Gibson and Megan fox.

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    Jul 23rd 2014, 7:33 AM

    UN Report covering Gaza 21-22 July 2014

    ” One child has been killed in Gaza every hour for the past two days.”

    http://www.ochaopt.org/documents/ocha_opt_sitrep_23_07_2014.pdf

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    Jul 23rd 2014, 7:51 AM

    Shocking Nazi like arrogance from Israeli Government spokespersons !
    They speak of murder in terms of necessity likened to having breakfast ?
    Such cold heartened individuals , who obviously hold themselves up as the ‘superior race’ to the people of Palestine and Gaza and where did we hear that before in history?

    An Israeli spokesperson, last evening, on Channel Four News, even went so far as to further lie and state that no people had been dispossessed of their townlands and home areas in Israel , while he had ‘no recollection’ of Israel having bombed any hospitals in Gaza !

    Goebbels would be proud of such lies and such propaganda speak , wouldn’t he ?

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    Jul 23rd 2014, 8:23 AM

    So Palestine have their land stolen on them by Israel they pick up arms to defend it and get called terrorists? The UN agrees that Israel is illegally occupying land but yet says Israel have the right to defend itself? Israel and America are the two worst countries in the two for breaking human rights records. But what can we do? Protests do not get any air time at all off any national news.

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    Jul 23rd 2014, 8:32 AM

    All we can do is boycott Israeli products and those who stock products from Israel.
    As the cancellation of flights to Tel Aviv shows, economic isolation can have an impact.

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    Jul 23rd 2014, 7:29 AM

    Palestinian children tortured, used as shields by Israel: UN

    http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/2/8/106714/World/Region/Palestinian-children-tortured,-used-as-shields-by-.aspx

    “It voiced deep concern at the “continuous use of Palestinian children as human shields and informants”, saying 14 such cases had been reported between January 2010 and March 2013 alone.

    Israeli soldiers had used Palestinian children to enter potentially dangerous buildings before them and to stand in front of military vehicles to deter stone-throwing, it said.

    “Almost all those using children as human shields and informants have remained unpunished and the soldiers convicted for having forced at gunpoint a nine-year-old child to search bags suspected of containing explosives only received a suspended sentence of three months and were demoted,” it said.

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    Jul 23rd 2014, 7:42 AM

    The Israeli government and armed forces still carry on with their campaign of murder in Gaza.

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    Jul 23rd 2014, 7:45 AM

    Brian Ward seriously you need to quote actual unbiased sources for your points otherwise your just buying into propaganda against Israel.

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    Jul 23rd 2014, 8:03 AM

    So the UN is unbiased is it? Do you have any evidence that the report is incorrect? Can you point out where you perceive the bias is?

    I’ll tell you what, why don’t you refute this https://www.youtube.com/verify_controversy?next_url=/watch%3Fv%3DsBakqLUBWP0%26bpctr%3D1406041038 “Israeli sniper killing wounded civilian”
    An unarmed teen, shot by a sniper and then murdered while unarmed and injured on the ground. Is the camera biased in your opinion?

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    Jul 23rd 2014, 8:21 AM

    Pol, I think the UN is a reliable unbiased source. What you need to do is realise that although Israel has the right to defend itself they have progressed from that to retribution which includes murder and bombing of hospitals, schools and generally anywhere there are civillians to be found.

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    Jul 23rd 2014, 9:26 AM

    And anywhere you find civilians you will find Hamas weapons been hidden, Hamas want civilians to die, Islamic fundamentalists don,t care about anyone, they enslave people with a warped and evil version of Islam, they are no different to Isis in Iraq or Boko Haram in Nigeria!

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    Jul 23rd 2014, 9:29 AM

    Jopmarsy – Should you not include the Israeli’s in that list of yours too ?

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    Jul 23rd 2014, 10:57 AM

    UN unbiased? Reading comments here, Irish are truly stupid.

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    Jul 23rd 2014, 11:11 AM

    @brian. It doesn’t make sense. If this guy was hit by a .338 lapua round it would have been very very messy. The shot to his wrist would have taken his hand clean off. Three hits would have done unspeakable injury to him. It doesn’t add up.

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    Jul 23rd 2014, 11:58 AM

    So who shot him then Charles. Oh wait, let me guess, it was Hamas.

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    Jul 23rd 2014, 12:06 PM

    Brian I have no idea.

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    Jul 23rd 2014, 12:08 PM

    Well Charles, he was certainly shot in the leg.

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    Jul 23rd 2014, 7:57 AM

    War OF Terror.

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    Jul 23rd 2014, 10:56 AM

    I don’t support Hamas but I think Israel believes that Palestinians are lesser humans than them, it seems to me that there is an attempt by Israel to slowly exterminate the Palestinians.

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    Jul 23rd 2014, 10:04 AM

    Does anybody do research on Hamas and see the crimes they have committed ??? Guess not your all one sided arm chair people who have no clue what’s going on and jump in the band wagon!

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    Jul 23rd 2014, 11:09 AM

    Of course I know what Hamas are. Terrorists. But Israel are hardly angels having murdered almost 500 innocent civillians including hundreds of chindren. That makes the Israeli government and their military terrorists also.

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    Jul 23rd 2014, 1:48 PM

    Are they terrorists? They are essentially firing rockets into their own land. What else would you have them do, play guitars and sing peace songs as the Israeli military ethnicy cleans all the Palestinians. Anyway now all the Palestinian resistance, including the PLO, and including the ‘moderate’ Abbas support Hamas’s demands, no stopping of rocket fire, until the blockade ends.

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    Jul 23rd 2014, 10:17 AM

    I suppose if Trevor couldn’t make his name on the rugby field he might make it this way

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    Jul 23rd 2014, 11:35 AM

    Legacies are normally for our parents not our children.

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    Jul 23rd 2014, 1:30 PM

    Sean – have you and FIANNA FAIL “made it” ?
    Ye certainly have – totally ruined the Country !!!!

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    Jul 23rd 2014, 9:54 AM

    What is a “die in”: ?

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    Jul 24th 2014, 12:50 AM

    Get your facts right – the “minor incident” did not constitute any person attempting to get into the U.S. Embassy grounds – the demonstrators were not being allowed to cross the road to protest on the PUBLIC footpath outside the embassy, that is what the guy was attempting to do………don’t try to dilute the brutality of the gardai in this instance, one only has to view the video recording to see this.

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    Jul 23rd 2014, 2:36 PM

    I’m sure that TV3 news will do a special on it , for trevor ! !

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