But some times I hear something that catches me as being so horrible, I have to take a very deep breath and then something unintelligible comes from my mouth, and this morning was one such occasion, just as I was about to get in the shower.
The Israeli Defence Force targeted an apartment block in Gaza. You've all experienced death of a family member and it is sad and long may we grieve for our loss. I think a boy in the apartment block is seven, note not past tense.
The bomb blew him out of his home and onto the roof of a neighbouring apartment building. Amazingly he was relatively unscathed, physically at least. His mother also survived, however his mother's husband, the boy's father did not. Nor did her five daughters survive, nor did her mother, her father, her brother and her sister.
The family doesn't seem to made up of Hamas members. Let's see. That's a score of innocents killed in one family at 10/12. Nice work IDF. Take some pride.
It is within the power of the Middle Eastern and Western worlds to stop this, yet neither will.
I doubt the word distraught is an adequate enough word. Quote from ABC Australia.
Ali's mother, Nuha Mahmoud Shatouh, is distraught. She lost her husband, her five daughters, her mother, father, sister and brother in the strike. She'd been cooking for the family when the missile hit.
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~sigh~
ReplyDeleteAaaarrgh. I saw that story too. Inarticulate horror. And grief. And rage.
ReplyDeleteThe loss of innocent lives is heartbreaking and unacceptable, and while we may feel powerless from afar, bearing witness, speaking out, and demanding accountability remain vital actions in the face of such tragedy.
ReplyDeleteIt's disgusting that innocents are being targeted on any and all sides in any and all confrontations around the world.
ReplyDeleteBetween Ukraine and Gaza we are witness to too many atrocities and the powers that could do something either walk around telling everyone how great they are or shift blame anywhere but on them. Sadly, if these situations ever get resolved another will appear somewhere else. It seems to be the human condition and it is terrible.
ReplyDeleteLeaders begin wars and end wars. Hostages should never be taken and should never be a bargaining tool. The hatred that festers after a supposed peace agreement never goes away.
ReplyDeleteEuropean countries divided the middle east into countries of diametrically opposed groups.
The same occurred with partition of India and Pakistan, by Britain. The west has a great deal to answer for . As for Russia and China, they are as guilty as well.
😢😢😢😢😢😢 I really hate senseless wars. and in my opinion all wars are senseless.
ReplyDeleteMakes me so sad. It's all about bullies and greed I think.
ReplyDeleteThe IDF has a lot to answer to. But war is always there. Territorial rights often lies behind such absolute cruelty and we can weep at the loss of life but cannot change it.
ReplyDeleteNo words.
ReplyDeleteHorrible. I wonder how Israel will explain it. No doubt they'll say Hamas was hiding under the bed.
ReplyDeleteIt's sickening what Israel is doing to the people of Gaza. Gaza has been reduced to a pile of rubble and still they continue with this genocide, because there is no other name for it.
ReplyDeleteIt boggles my mind before we had a Russian sympathizer as president, our government routinely condemned Russia for its actions in Ukraine. Remember how horrified we were when they bombed a maternity hospital killing new mothers and babies? And yet, just months later, we are defending Israel for bombing a hospital. Our hypocrisy makes me sick. But...now you can depend on the US to firmly back any autocratic leader in the world. Well...not counting China.
ReplyDeleteIt is sickening, really.
Nobody learned from the past, I mean WWII, Israel does the same now, as they had lived during Hitler's times where about 6 million of them were killed ! And now this bi-polar Trump .... who changes his mind all 5 minutes and who had sent immigrants back "home", where families were separated, better watch something else on TV !
ReplyDeleteI wish there were no such thing as missiles or even guns. The irony is all the religion mixed into the killings. Human are such monsters blowing up little kids, old people, anyone, then celebrating.
ReplyDeleteThere is an immediate emergency but also a long-standing injustice and ongoing problem which official discourse in our country continues to sweep under the carpet of a "two-state solution" which nothing is seriously being done to advance. Meanwhile, Israel is preempting any progress by a final solution of its own.
ReplyDeleteThere are people in Israel who are opposed to such extermination/displacement, but right now they have little sway and it may be too late to stop it. (Until the USA withdraws its support, that will count for little, but it's a bit like climate change, holding back because others are not doing anything just stops any possibility of progress.) But before that could happen people will need to be able to speak openly about it within our community without being slapped down for "anti-Semitism."
Right now few dare because the repercussions are too severe. In your own state people are being charged with speaking "insulting words" for saying that "Zionists are terrorists."