Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

The images of people of burning alive at Al Aqsa Hospital and in a tented camp beside it are possibly the most horrific, stomach churning, terrifying images of this horrific year of genocide by Israel against the people of Gaza. I suspect those images will be a lasting image in people's minds of the utter horror Israel is inflicting on the people of Gaza - burning people alive in hospitals, in ICU beds, in tents. Innocent people like Sha'ban al-Dalou and a falafel seller and a janitor were burned alive.

On Sunday, the same regime killed 22 people and injured 80 in a school in Nuseirat by repeatedly bombing a school.

There is evidence that, over the weekend, Israel has been using white phosphorus, a chemical weapon, in an area where innocent Lebanese people live and UN peacekeepers are present. Israel has threatened Irish troops and attacked UN bases. There is simply no atrocity Israel is not willing to commit. We are seeing that in front of our eyes.

Most likely, the white phosphorus, the bombs that burn people alive in Gaza and the weapons that are being deployed to murder people in Gaza and now Lebanon came from the United States. Very possibly, some of those that were used in horrific atrocities to commit this genocide went through Irish airspace, yet the Government has done nothing to stop it. The Ditchreports that, over the weekend and since the Israeli army pointed its tanks at our troops, two more flights have gone through Irish airspace carrying munitions to Israel to carry out its genocidal atrocities against the people of Gaza, but still the Government lets this happen and does nothing about it. There were thousands of people at Shannon Airport at the weekend – I was one of them – asking why the Government was not stopping this and saying that it was complicit as long as it allowed this to happen and the US military, which is up to its neck in arming and supporting Israel and giving succour to the crimes Israel is committing, to use the airport. When the Taoiseach was in the United States last week, why did he not publicly condemn it in front of the world for giving the weapons to Israel to commit these genocidal atrocities? Why did he not tell the US that its military was not welcome in Shannon Airport while it was arming genocidal atrocities? What is he going to do to stop the munitions for these atrocities, massacres and crimes going through Irish airspace?

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