Letters to the Editor: We must speak up about the atrocities in Gaza

Some readers consider aspects of the violence in Ukraine and the Middle East, while others respond to Jennifer Horgan's article about the Mater Dei Academy in Cork

Buildings lying in ruins in Nuseirat refugee camp in the Gaza Strip in the wake of recent Israeli bombardment. Picture: Adel Hana/AP

Well said, Séamas O’Reilly (‘The constant atrocity in Gaza beamed into our pockets risks leaving us numb’ — Irish Examiner, January 13) for describing the reality of the unbearable horror of Gaza.

Amid ‘the roll call of atrocity’ of lives lost, including medics and journalists, countless thousands injured and trapped forever under rubble, homes and hospitals destroyed, which had to fill an entire page, one sentence stood out even from all that: