Iyad Altahrawi has been forced to leave his homeland in Gaza twice in the last decade. On both occasions, like many other Palestinians who live under occupation in the strip less than half the size of Louth, his life was put in danger by Israeli bombings.  First, the computer engineer, then in his mid-20s, left Gaza after surviving two months of bombing during the summer of 2014 in which the UN estimates 2,251 were killed, 65 per cent of them civilians. “I almost died a couple of times,” Altahrawi says. “So, on the last day of the war, I resigned…

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