Ruairi Ó Murchú (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

A week ago, António Guterres stated:

Gaza is ... a graveyard for children. The nightmare in Gaza is more than a humanitarian crisis. It is a crisis of humanity.

I think it is fair to say that the situation has drastically disimproved.

I assume there is agreement across Government parties with the ministerial statement from earlier today that the Israeli onslaught on Gaza was a war on children, you could not build peace on the mass graves of children and Israel had become blinded by rage.

Dr. Ahmed El Mokhallalati, a surgeon at Al-Shifa hospital, told Reuters by phone that the main risk now was from dead bodies decomposing, burying 120 bodies needed a lot of equipment and could not be done by hand or by an individual, and it took hours and hours to be able to bury all those bodies. This is the reality that Palestinians in Gaza are dealing with. We are speaking about 11,240 Palestinians dead, including 4,630 children, 101 UN workers, journalists and others. Enemies of Israel or collateral damage, the result is the same – refugee camps, hospitals and dead babies.

The numbers will be greater tomorrow. Israeli spokespersons will refute the figures and speak of the IDF being the most moral army in the world and how it does everything to avoid civilian deaths, including by giving warnings and sending text messages. This is a nuclear power that is pulverising a civilian Palestinian population and pretending that Hamas are an existential threat to modern-day Israel. The regime of Benjamin Netanyahu is where chancerism meets absolute racism. We need to refer Israel as the war criminal it is to the International Criminal Court, as was done by Ireland and many other states in the case of Russia.

I will leave it at that. I could go on for hours.

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