Letters to the editor: How many must die before we take action?

One reader writes that 'at this stage, there needs to be an immediate implementation of sanctions on Israel'

Palestinians fleeing from the southern Gaza city of Rafah during an Israeli ground and air offensive in the city on Tuesday. Picture: Jehad Alshrafi/AP

To the Irish Government and its representatives, I must express my utter disbelief regarding the current genocidal atrocities in Palestine. We are still waking up each and every single day to scores of Palestinians murdered and maimed by the Israeli army, its government’s actions and its violent, illegal, foreign, Zionist settlers.

While it is significantly important that the Irish Government has finally recognised Palestine as an independent state, it is abundantly clear that this is merely a symbolic move. It does not help those being brutalised every day by the Israeli apartheid state.