Letters to the Editor: Palestinians in West Bank and Gaza need a change in US policy 

Some readers have points to make about the conflict in the Middle East, while others consider topics including the Olympics and hurling

Mourners carry the body of 50-year-old paramedic Iman Juma'a, her body covered with her high-vis jacket, during her funeral in the occupied West Bank refugee camp of Tulkarem on Wednesday. Picture: Nasser Nasser/AP

Under US president Joe Biden, the US policy towards the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and its support for Israel’s devastating war on a besieged Gaza has been a moral failure, and a clear violation of international humanitarian law.

The US is the biggest supplier of arms to Israel, providing an estimated 68% of the country’s foreign-sourced weapons. Without these weapons Israel would not be able to sustain the brutal daily bombardments which have made the lives of over two million people a living hell over the last ten months. Bombardments which have seen almost 40,000 massacred — 72% women and children — through daily indiscriminate attacks on hospitals, schools and areas that are supposed to be safe zones.