More GAA figures need to express their solidarity with Palestine

AHMAD Shabat is in a hospital bed. The child looks agitated and tearful. He lost his entire family in an Israeli airstrike. Ahmad was the only survivor.

His uncle now looks after him. Ahmad was hit by a second Israeli airstrike but was only slightly injured. His uncle brought him south of Gaza where he was hit by a third Israeli airstrike.

His uncle, Ibrahim Abu Amsha, explains: “He’s behaving differently, he’s scared of everything. He always asks to sleep in my lap. He doesn’t know he’s lost his parents, nor his legs.”

Channel 4′s Kill Zone: Inside Gaza: Dispatches, screened on Monday night, was one of the most powerful, saddest pieces of film ever made documenting the human catastrophe of Gaza.

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Yoav Gallant, from Israel’s Ministry of Defence, said that they were “fighting human animals”. Always dehumanise your ‘enemy’.

Stories told through the eyes of children, doctors and journalists, the film chronicles the early days, weeks and months of Israel’s murderous campaign and is brought right up to date with the latest figures of 35,000 dead Palestinians, 14,000 of which were children.

The Gaza Health Ministry estimates there are 10,000 bodies buried under rubble.

Palestinians have been refugees in their own land long before Hamas’s bloody attack on Israel on October 7.

Given the recent strikes on the refugee camps in Rafah – Gaza’s most southern........

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