Colin Sheridan: We quibble over words as children burn in Gaza

60,000 Palestinians, over a quarter of them children, were killed in 600 days. We have watched it all in real time

A man holds a wounded child after receiving treatment at Al-Awda Hospital at the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, following an Israeli airstrike that hit a school in the camp on Monday. Picture: Eyad Baba/ AFP

Almost 600 days. 60,000 dead Palestinians. 16,000 of them children. It’s 10.30am on Monday, May 19, and, as I’m writing, Israel has intensified its attacks across Gaza — carrying out over 30 airstrikes since dawn that have killed at least 28 Palestinians.

All of this before Irish children even made it to school.