In his recently published book ‘Catastrophe Nakba II’, Fintan Drury charts the first year of Israel’s response to the Hamas attack of 7 October 2023 and sets it in the context of the 1948 Nakba and the history since. Here, he reflects on the famine conditions in Gaza as an Irishman whose great-grandparents survived Ireland’s famine of the 1840s. “It was now getting dark, and there was a solitary bird twittering somewhere in the distance. Mary took the corpse by the head. The old man took the feet. They had to bend it in order to get it down into...