A Family Palestinian Solidarity Day Festival will take place on June 1 to raise funds for meal packages for displaced families in Gaza.

The event will take place at Spillane’s Bar in Headford and will begin at 2pm.
There will be Palestinian themed Art workshops for kids with Tracy from The Art House Killarney.

The Dingle Druid will perform a family inclusive, heart opening fire ceremony.

KASI will host a community style picnic table and will have African drummers performing on site.

Other activities include a bake sale, bouncing castles, food vendors, ice cream vans and face painting for all the kids, along with incredible musical performances and guest speakers to be announced closer to the event.

“Since late last year solidarity groups have been establishing themselves throughout the county with regular vigils for the people of Palestine now taking place once a week in almost every big town in the county, Tralee, Kenmare, Caherciveeen, Listowel, Killorglin and Killarney..” said organiser Sally McMonagle.

“Killarney for Palestine and Kerry Friends of Palestine have been proactive in fundraising and raising educational awareness for the plight of the Palestinians who are currently experiencing a genocide, forced famine and ethnic cleansing at the hands of the Israeli government.”

Killarney for Palestine meet every Sunday at 12pm outside the courthouse opposite the Friary and is open for everyone.

Last week hundreds of people gathered at the market cross for a memorial vigil to highlight the 14,000 innocent children brutally murdered.

The Procession walked silently down New Street accompanied by fiddle player Nicole Lonergan, to the unmarked children's famine grave in the grounds of the Cathedral.

The MacAcademy children’s drama group sang ‘True colours’ and local children walked on stage carrying images of some Palestinian children of the same age who lives were tragically cut short in this genocide.

Palestinian Poems were read by Dr John Geaney and Donal O’Riordan while Shinann Buckley O'Sullivan sang a heart breaking Irish lullaby accompanied by John Buckley on the uilleann pipes.