An Irish-based Palestinian journalist has said she “can’t possibly process the number of friends” she has lost during Israel’s military offensive in Gaza. Eman Mohammed, a speaker at Saturday’s Palestine protest in Dublin, said she left Gaza after her one-year-old child was injured during a bombardment of her neighbourhood by Israeli forces in 2014. Her family were able to go to the US to seek treatment for her child because of her Irish-American husband. They moved to Ireland following the outbreak of the current conflict in October 2023, which she said felt like “coming home”. However, the Irish Palestine Solidarity Campaign vice-chairwoman also said they are calling on the Irish government for “actions, not empty words”.

Source: Irish Examiner January 25, 2026 02:09 UTC