An arresting picture of a child in Rafah that should end the supply of arms to Israel

<span>Mike Godridge was transfixed by the look in this boy’s eyes and says ‘the UK should immediately cut off the supply of arms to this out-of-control regime in Israel’.</span><span>Photograph: Eyad Baba/AFP/Getty</span>
Mike Godridge was transfixed by the look in this boy’s eyes and says ‘the UK should immediately cut off the supply of arms to this out-of-control regime in Israel’.Photograph: Eyad Baba/AFP/Getty

I was transfixed by the look in the eyes of the boy in the centre of the photo of devastation in Gaza (‘Bodies everywhere’: the horrors of Israel’s strike on a Rafah camp, 29 May). This is no “tragic mishap”, but an act of war. Instead of platitudes, the UK should immediately cut off the supply of arms to this out-of-control regime in Israel.
Mike Godridge
Brampton, Cumbria

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Honor Cooper
London

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Rob Williamson
Sheffield

• With Labour going from the three-word slogans of recent years down to one (Change), I’m waiting for the inevitable shift to just a grunt. Maybe Reform could oblige.
Paul Simpson
Southsea, Hampshire

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