Letters to the Editor: Readers respond to the attacks on Israel, and on Gaza in Palestine

Irish Examiner readers write about the bloodshed in the Middle East including the roots of the conflict, how Ireland and the EU are responding, and how it is being reported by the media

A Palestinian woman weeps as bodies of people killed in overnight Israeli shelling arrive for their funerals in Khan Yunis on Tuesday. Picture: Said Khatib/AFP/Getty

Reading 'Israeli death toll rises to 900; 680 Palestinians killed in strikes on Gaza' (Irish Examiner, October 9) is terribly sad, the world does not need any more war.

All efforts should be made to pursue peace, no matter how difficult in the ongoing and long-running dispute between Israel and the Palestinian people in the disputed territory of the Gaza Strip.