Israel’s barbarism

ISLAMABAD: The world is watching the brutalities of Gaza like it would watch an action movie. The offences continue to be aired on news channels; the images showing hundreds of children being killed inhumanely in front of their parents and a number of parents being gunned down in front of their own innocent children.

Where are the ‘humanity lovers’ and the many ‘peace lovers’ who claim to be working for Palestinians? It seems that the only sin that the young Palestinian children have committed was to be born in Palestine and not in the US, the UK, Israel or Saudi Arabia.

Images and videos from Gaza are heart-rending and tell the story of ruthless murder. It looks as if those attacking are not humans, but heartless beasts or psychopaths, particularly by the way they attack children. The world outside seems to have no sympathies for the children who are victims of Israel’s barbarity. Unfortunately, the international media is showing another picture whereas the social media is depicting a completely different angle of the issue. It is just painful to see sliced bodies and crushed children’s body parts on screen. How much pain can these people bear and for how long will they be able to survive such torture?

Naushaba Abid

Published in The Express Tribune, July 15^th, 2014.

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