Dear Editor,
Lest we forget the genocide against the Palestinian people continues. On 19 November at least 13 men, 12 women and 8 children were killed by Israeli bombings in Gaza, and at least 260 have been killed since the so-called ceasefire began on 10 October. Israeli settlements on the West Bank and attacks by Israeli settlers are continuing to expand. On 20 November Human Rights Watch stated that: “The Israeli government’s forced displacement of the populations of three West Bank refugee camps in January and February 2025 amounts to war crimes and crimes against humanity. “
On 13 November a chartered plane carrying 153 Palestinians from Gaza landed at an airport near Johannesburg. They were taken from Gaza through an Israeli controlled crossing then transferred to Israel’s Ramon Airport where they boarded a Romanian aircraft that took them to Johannesburg, South Africa. This adds another layer of ethnic cleansing to the mass murder campaign that has probably caused the deaths of over 100,000 people in Gaza
A Guardian article states that the Trump-orchestrated peace plan for Gaza “puts Donald Trump in supreme control of Gaza, perhaps with Tony Blair as his immediate subordinate in a “board of peace”. There is no mention of accountability for the genocide committed by Israel or the participation and complicity in that genocide by US, and many EU and NATO member states.
The Trump peace plan makes no mention of how the 2.4 million Gaza population are going to survive in the Gaza Strip that has been deliberately made unlivable due to the destruction of almost all facilities necessary for human living, serious pollution by depleted uranium and other dangerous chemicals and unexploded munitions.
The UN Security Council passed its most outrageous resolution on 18 November, which if implemented could have the effect of pardoning and even rewarding Israel for the genocide it has been perpetrating against the Palestinian people.
Edward Horgan, Castletroy, Limerick
Irish Political Review 