A day of events on Palestine took place at St Mary's University College in Belfast as part of the Féile an Phobail festival, running from 11am to 7pm. The event was organised by the Belfast Palestine Solidarity Campaign and Trades Union Friends of Palestine.

The programme included discussions, film screenings, a live video link with Gaza, Palestinian food, and two book launches. Organisers said the event was full from start to finish.

Sue Pentel of the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign said the day opened with a session chaired by journalist Anne Cadwallader, featuring Romana Rubeo, managing editor of the Palestine Chronicle. Rubeo spoke about Palestinian women, resistance and media bias.

Pentel said the session was followed by a presentation of the Hands Up drama project and a live link with Gaza. She stated that children who had previously visited Belfast had been killed in what she called the genocide in Gaza.

Wieland Hoban, chair of Jewish Voice for a Just Peace, discussed Germany's use of Holocaust guilt to justify support for Israel. He launched his book Germany's Jewish Problem and spoke about suppression of Jewish voices opposed to Israeli actions.

Dr Ramzy Baroud delivered the keynote lecture and launched his Gaza family memoir Before the Flood. He spoke about the death of his sister, Dr Soma Baroud, who he said was the 166th physician killed by Israeli warplanes in Khan Younis. He said she died in an airstrike on a taxi taking her home from work.

Baroud said that actions taken in Ireland contribute to a shift in opinion since October 7 and to what he called the isolation of Israel as a pariah state. He called for accountability rather than sympathy or passive solidarity, and said Palestinians would prevail and win their freedom.