Irish Examiner view: Irish know all too well of Gazan plight

The Great Famine may have shaped the Irish people, but what’s happening in Gaza must harden worldwide attitudes towards Israel

Palestinians struggle to get donated food at a community kitchen in Jabalia, northern Gaza Strip, on Monday. Picture: Jehad Alshrafi/AP

We here in Ireland know a thing or two about famines. It strikes a bitter chord deep within the Irish psyche when we hear of peoples anywhere in our world who are being forcibly cornered into starvation for the political means of others.

President Michael D Higgins, as he has done so often during his two terms in office, was unequivocal in his address to the National Famine Commemoration in Kilmallock at the weekend when asserting that the Gazan people were being subjected to “forced starvation”.