Zoe Lawlor of Gaza Action Ireland uses the isolated killing of Abed al-Fattah Yusri al-Sharif, 21, by an Israeli soldier to support a universal claim that Israel engages in a campaign “of extrajudicial executions” in its confrontation with Palestinian terrorists (Letters, April 5).

In Zoe Lawlor’s latest denial of reality, she inserts herself in the narrative of Palestinian victimisation claiming to have been “attacked and kidnapped in international waters while sailing to Gaza, robbed and repeatedly strip searched, imprisoned for a week, shot at with steel-coated rubber bullets and tear gas” (Letters, 9 November).

While people like Zoe Lawlor (Irish Examiner, Letters, October 29) are busy deflecting attention away from the failings of Palestinian society and blaming Israel, I wonder why she has nothing to say about the Palestinian state that would come about if people like her get their way.

In a letter attempting to smear the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) and supporters of Palestinian rights (Irish Examiner, Letters, July 30), Kevin McCarthy makes an untrue assertion about the Limerick screening of the award-winning Israeli film, The Lab.

A few numbers are enough to refute the propaganda which Zoe Lawlor (Letters, July 29) repeats without a nod towards the facts.

Derek O’Flynn, press officer of the Israeli Embassy in Dublin (Letters, July 15) seemed a little confused as to the meaning of solidarity with Palestine, which of course goes back to the original ethnic cleansing, Al Nakba, carried out by what became the state of Israel, in 1948.

Kevin McCarthy claims (Letters, Irish Examiner, July 7) that advocating for a one-state solution in Palestine and Israel “meets the EU’s definition of anti-Semitism”. 

Despite its supporters in this letters’ page claiming that criticism of Israel equates to anti-Semitism, it does not. 

The Health Information and Quality Authority (Hiqa) report on their grave concerns about the welfare of the 1,600 children living in direct provision in this state is shocking.

It’s significant that Zoe Lawlor (Letters, Nov 13) doesn’t challenge the points I made regarding corruption in Hamas.

Zoe Lawlor (Irish Examiner, November 13) fails to understand the risk in providing materials to rebuild Gaza.

Zoe Lawlor criticises Ciarán Ó Raghallaigh for not showing ‘one shred of empathy or sympathy for the more than 2,200 people killed’ (Letters, November 13) in this summer’s tragic conflict in Gaza. 

In response to my letter on the reconstruction of Gaza and the necessity to end Israel’s impunity for its crimes against the Palestinian people, Ciarán Ó Raghallaigh writes a confused reply seeming to ascribe responsibility for obstacles to the rebuilding to Hamas rather than to Israel’s siege which has been condemned by the UN, the EU and many human rights organisations.

Further to Zoe Lawlor’s letter (Letters, October 24), the main question the Government should be asking is whether or not money it has pledged will all be used for the good of Gazans.

The Irish government has joined with other states in pledging money for the reconstruction of Gaza, however, when Ireland had the opportunity to take a stand for justice for the people of Gaza being relentlessly bombed during Israel’s 52 day assault this summer, Minister Flanagan instead chose to abstain on a United Nations vote calling for an investigation into Israel’s war crimes. 

Kevin McCarthy (Letters, August 6) frames Israel’s attack on Gaza — which has killed 1,849 people, including 426 children, injured 10,000 and made hundreds of thousands homeless — as a reaction to Hamas rockets.

Zoe Lawlor and Mags O’Brien (Letters, August 1) are justifiably outraged about the devastation being wrought on the Palestinian people of Gaza.

As Israel continues to wage horror and unimaginable devastation on the besieged, captive population of Gaza, we ask how much longer will that state be allowed to act with impunity in its breaches of international law against the Palestinian people?

Five years on from Israel’s assault on Gaza, Operation Cast Lead, when approximately 1,400 Palestinians were killed (Amnesty International), the situation in Gaza is increasingly desperate.

Two Irish activists who were yesterday prevented from leaving Israel for a second time are understood to be on their way home this morning.

Two Irish activists, due to return to Ireland after they were detained in Israel, have been prevented from leaving the country for a second time this evening.

Irish human rights activists detained by Israeli authorities as they tried to break the naval blockade on Gaza will arrive home over the next two days.

Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore was tonight facing demands to intervene over the Israeli interception of an Irish boat trying to break the naval blockade on Gaza.

AN Irish emergency aid convoy carrying medical supplies to the blockaded Palestinian enclave of Gaza has been stranded in Jordan for the last five days.