Thousands march through Dublin in rally for Palestine

She was one of thousands who marched through Dublin city centre on a rainy Saturday afternoon.

Thousands demonstrated on the streets of Dublin as part of the National March for Palestine (Bairbre Holmes/PA)

A student from Gaza has described how leaving her family to come to Ireland was the “hardest decision of my entire life”.

Ghada Ashour, a speaker at Saturday’s National March for Palestine in Dublin, told the Press Association she left Khan Younis last September to study for a master’s degree in Ireland.