Mick Clifford: Too simplistic to say Israel-Hamas war is a good versus evil conflict

People holding placards and flags during a solidarity rally organised by the Irish Israel Alliance and the Irish Christian Friends of Israel outside the Israel Embassy in Dublin.

Last Saturday an outrage against humanity was committed when Hamas fighters crossed from Gaza into Israel and went on a killing spree. 

Civilians were shot dead randomly. Women were sexually assaulted. Children were not spared. Hostages, including reportedly an elderly wheelchair-bound Holocaust survivor, were kidnapped and taken back to Gaza. Footage uploaded on social media showed a woman’s half-naked body being dragged around. Another filmed a car pulling up back in Gaza, a young woman, her hands tied behind her back, was taken from the rear of the vehicle.