Sir, – Nearly 50 presidents and prime ministers will meet in the Convention Centre for the European Political Community summit this week (“High politics and traffic chaos: Europe’s leaders are coming to Dublin”, Politics, November 9th).
The first item of discussion for them must be how to relieve the suffering of the people of Gaza who have been affected by the recent flooding of tents and temporary shelters. The fact that Palestinians lived in such squalid conditions was already a scandal. Now, it is even worse.
There will be more rain and cold this winter, and the people of Gaza urgently need better and stronger shelter. That is surely not an impossible task for the EU, and doing nothing about this tragedy is tantamount to actively inflicting more pain on people who have surely suffered enough already. – Yours, etc,
CLAUDINE GAIDONI,
RM Block
Navan Road,
Dublin 7.
