Around 2,000 people have taken part in a healthcare workers for Gaza protest in Dublin city centre.
The protesters, who included doctors, nurses, pharmacists and allied healthcare professionals started from the Royal College of Surgeons on St Stephen's Green.
Nicola Cantwell of Pharmacists for Palestine told RTÉ News: "There's children out there that have lost limbs, there's women having cesarean sections without anesthetics.
"There's no medication. There's healthcare workers working all day under bombardment from Israel, and they have to go home and look after their own families.
"They are the absolute best of us, and all we can do here is wave our flags, listen to our politicians making false promises, being slow to act and stand. 'Oh dear we must do this and oh dear we should do that.'
"The time for Oh Dearing and the time for talking and the time promising is gone. We need some sort of action. It's time for sanctions."
The protesters, many wearing surgical scrubs, marched down South King Street and South William Street before returning to St Stephen's Green.
Outside the RCSI, Dr Angela Skuce of Healthcare Workers for Gaza told protesters that too many of their letters and petitions calling for boycotts of Israel and Israeli goods had been met with silence but urged them to continue campaigning.
"We will keep going. And as Gandhi said, first they will ignore you, then they will ridicule you, then they will fight you, and then you will win you."
She called on the HSE to stop buying from Teva, an Israeli pharmaceutical company, and said Ireland should not be recognising qualifications issued by a university built on illegally occupied land in a settlement in the West Bank.
