Inishowen IPSC confirms campaign against genocide in Gaza to continue into 2026

The Inishowen branch of Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) have organised protests, marches and monthly events on bridges – known as brigils - throughout 2025 and ‘sadly’, they say, ‘will have to continue into 2026’.

A spokesperson fstated: “As we approach the end of another year of extreme violence in Palestine, humanitarian concerns still top the list. Gaza and the West Bank in particular, are still facing severe destruction and loss of life.

"All of the social, economic, cultural, and human rights impacts have been devastating. The huge disparity in casualties and deaths clearly demonstrate that these barbaric and cruel actions, perpetrated by Israel and their occupying army, are not defensive actions as they claim, but are a very obvious genocidal campaign to annihilate as many Palestinians as they can and destroy all of the means needed for basic survival and living.

“People stopping at our various events including our weekly information stalls throughout Inishowen have all expressed disbelief that the so called ‘peace plan’ does not even attempt to address key issues such as occupation, apartheid, hostages held and tortured and raped in prisons. Nor any accountability for the tens of thousands of deaths, the estimated 30,000 orphaned children, nor the many thousands of amputees of which, at least another 30,000 children have lost one or more limbs,” said the spokesperson for the group.

The spokesperson added that it was ‘extremely frightening’ that civil liberties are being restricted in countries such as the US and UK, against peaceful protesters who oppose genocide and support humanitarian values.

“We are”, the spokesperson said, “continually alarmed that families are losing homes, land, and livelihoods in the West Bank and about detentions without charge. The genocide is happening in the West Bank during the so called ceasefire and peace plan. All of it illegal and the wider corporate media are ignoring it.

"However, we see increasing public support for Palestinian rights as a positive sign. After two years of constant reactions – vigils, protests, boycotts – we believe we need to plan ahead as to where our focus will be, to have maximum impact.

“Our goals, going in to 2026 will include promoting boycotts, making Buncrana town an Apartheid-free zone, with the hope that all towns in County Donegal will follow. Each business or shop can check to see if they are stocking goods made or packaged in Israel. We all have a choice to make a difference. "

The group emphasises that “seeking justice for Palestinians is part of seeking justice for us all; a global justice”.

"We cannot watch any further diluting of International Law or the UN to be smashed to uphold the genocide."