From Irish Daily Mail.

   Dear Editor,

   The killing of Hind Rajab and far too many other children

   A recent UN report found that more than 38,000 women and girls

   were killed in Gaza between October 2023 and December 2025. This

   figure does not include those buried under rubble, and deaths

   caused by hunger, diseases, and the destruction of vital

   infrastructure.

   The horrific murders of five-year-old Hind Rajab and her family is

   just one example of the barbarism being inflicted on the

   Palestinian people. The Palestinian genocide is being perpetrated

   not only by the state of Israel, but by individual Israeli

   politicians, soldiers and others. It is also being facilitated by

   other governments, especially the US, and by all those individuals

   and officials who facilitate or are complicity in genocide, or who

   are failing in their moral and legal duties to take all possible

   measures to prevent or stop genocide. By allowing US military use

   of Shannon airport and Irish airspace, the Irish Government could

   be judged as being complicit in war crimes and genocide. We cannot

   say that we did not know. Too many are doing too little to stop

   the killing of children especially. The trauma suffered by Hind

   Rajab was not an isolated event. We now know the names of over

   21,000 children killed in Gaza since 7 October 2023. Other ongoing

   conflicts in Sudan, Lebanon, Iran and elsewhere are causing the

   deaths of hundreds of thousands of children annually. They are not

   just numbers or collateral damage. The killing of children is

   among the most serious breaches of international and humanitarian

   laws.

   The killing of Hind Rajab will be commemorated at a special peace

   vigil ceremony at Shannon airport at 1pm on Sunday 3rd May, which

   should have been Hind’s eight birthday.

   Edward Horgan, Castletroy, Limerick.