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Read the Gaza poem by a Cork writer that featured on the Irish Examiner's front page

Award-winning Cork writer William Wall wrote a poem for the Irish Examiner, depicting how the city of Gaza has become like a cemetery. Eyeless in Gaza was featured on the front page of Wednesday's paper. It was accompanied by a picture of a dead Palestinian girl who was found in a search and rescue operation carried out by locals after an Israeli attack targeting a house belonging to the Abu Shamal family in the Bureij refugee camp in Gaza. Here is Wednesday's front page. You can read the poem in full below. Wednesday's Irish Examiner front page. Eyeless in Gaza by William Wall A city becomes a cemetery A hospital becomes a morgue Becomes a slaughterhouse Becomes an ossuary Dust in the eyes And dust in the mouth A gale of wind blows it all away There will be no stumble-stones For the hundreds of thousands No railway platform memorial From here departed No films of children playing Bella Ciao on a broken guitar No museum of the death camp That was their home Read More Dozens of Palestinians killed while waiting for food trucks in Gaza