How much longer can Israel act with impunity? 

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?

As an occupying power, Israel has a legal, not to mind moral, obligation to protect the people of Gaza. Instead it has wreaked massive destruction on the territory, killed over 1,200 people, maimed and injured over 5,000 and made hundreds of thousands homeless.

The entire infrastructure of Gaza is being pounded into dust. To call any of these acts “self-defence” is utter fallacy.

Israel’s actions ... are an affront to humanity.

Gaza Action Ireland, a civil society initiative coming from the Irish Ship to Gaza, fully supports the Palestinian call for boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS), calls for sanctions on Israel, the immediate expulsion of the Israeli ambassador, and for the Irish Government to take meaningful action for the people of Palestine, living through their 66th year of occupation.

As the thousands of people marching all over the country in solidarity with the Palestinians in the last few weeks attests, the Irish Government has not been acting in our name in this regard, and we say no more to Israel’s attacks on Gaza.

Zoë Lawlor and Mags O’Brien

Co-ordinators, Gaza Action Ireland

108 Dooradooyle Park

Dooradoyle

Limerick