Activists stage 72-hour hunger strike in Cork for the people of Palestine

The Cork Palestine Solidarity Campaign said it was 'to draw attention to Israel’s deliberate starvation of the Palestinian people'

Members of the Cork Palestine Solidarity Campaign outside Cork City Hall. The group said it was taking this 'powerful act of solidarity and protest to draw attention to Israel’s deliberate starvation of the Palestinian people and highlight the urgent need for international intervention'.

Activists have begun a 72-hour hunger strike while sleeping outside Cork City Hall in protest against “Israel’s deliberate starvation of the Palestinian people” in Gaza.

As the war in Gaza grinds through a sixth month, a global food monitor warned that famine is imminent if a ceasefire is not agreed.