Gazan Refugee In Cork Urgently Looking For Accommodation
“My brothers, I received a transfer decision, and within 20 days I will have to move from Cork. I love Cork and I do not want to leave the city. I hope you can help me. “ the young Palestinian man said in a post on social media.
Noor, a refugee from Gaza living in an IPAS center in Cork has been told he has to leave the temporary accommodation, find a place elsewhere or move to a Mayo IPAS center.
“My brothers, I received a transfer decision, and within 20 days I will have to move from Cork. I love Cork and I do not want to leave the city. I am looking for any small room house or room to rent in a shared house. I hope you can help me. I love Cork, “ the young Palestinian man said in a post on social media, affirming that Cork is his home, and he wants to say, rather than be displaced for a second time.
The community in Cork, through various pro-Palestine advocacy groups, is supporting him, saying that he is very dear to the community, and asking if people have any accommodation for him.
A 2024 report by the Jesuit Center for Faith and Justice (JRS) found that the for-profit, privatized and corporatized IPAS system, in which profiteering is rampant, does not meet the minimum standards of humanitarian law and dignity for asylum seekers.
“There has been a shocking deterioration in living conditions for asylum seekers. While the intensive efforts by IPAS in the face of challenging circumstances to source and offer accommodation to every presenting IP applicant should be acknowledged, the current crisis around unaccommodated asylum seekers has drawn attention away from a lived reality of the worst living conditions encountered by JRS Ireland in its 17-year history. A cruel irony is that this has occurred in a period the Government committed to end the system of Direct Provision, “ the report’s conclusion read.
