Thousands of healthcare workers have called for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza during a march through Dublin city centre in solidarity with their colleagues in the enclave.
The doctors, nurses and allied healthcare workers marched from the Royal College of Surgeons (RCSI) on Stephen's Green on a loop which included Grafton Street and Drury Street.
They carried placards showing photos of healthcare workers killed in Gaza as they walked silently to a single drumbeat.
Speaking to the marchers back at the RCSI, Dr Angela Skuce of Healthcare Workers for Gaza said: "Our Government doesn't need us to tell them what to do.
"The time for rhetoric is over. The healthcare workers of Ireland and the people of Ireland want action to protect our colleagues, to protect the people of Palestine."
Her colleague, Dr George Little, an Emergency Medicine specialist said: "The Palestinian people, the doctors, the nurses, the allied health workers in Gaza and the West Bank, they can see us today, because of modern technology, they can see that we're here.
"Look at you all beautiful people with beautiful hearts, and they can see it, and that's giving them courage and strength. That's what they need. They have no food. They have no water.
"All they have is Spirit, and we've got to lend them a little bit of ours, just a little bit to get them over the line."
