Letters to the Editor: Marches show Palestinians that we have not forgotten them
Yafa school in the Al-Tuffah neighborhood of Gaza was completely destroyed in an Israeli army attack. Picture: June 30, 2025. Khames Alrefi/Anadolu/Getty
The marches for peace may seem pointless to some observers, but they show the people of Gaza they are not forgotten and to put moral pressure on governments to help end the out-of-control war by Israel’s forces on a defenceless 2.2m population; the key word here is ‘defenceless’.
And it’s fewer than 2.2m Palestinians now as no one can say for sure how many unarmed civilians have been killed by Israel’s missiles, drone bombs, tank rocket fire, and shootings by Israel’s military. The current estimate is 55,000 people dead with far more injured, some with limbs amputated. Many are homeless and many lie dead under bombed buildings.
