Gaza Should Make Us Sick; But We Need A More Courageous, Honest and Truthful Debate
Ghassan Hamdan is a doctor from Gaza. He works for the Palestinian Medical Relief Society, and is a member of the Peoples Health Movement. He has been sending frequent messages of despair from Gaza, including photographs of the carnage that has been unfolding there. The images are sickening, horrific and heartbreaking. I asked Ghassan to get consent from the photographers for me to share these photos more widely. Some of them can be found at the end of the bottom of this page.
They need to be seen because we need reminding of the fact that there is nothing glorious about war and violence; and that the killing, maiming and terrorisation of innocent children should fill us with revulsion and fury. We also need to be reminded of why we have international humanitarian law to govern the conduct of war.
It doesn’t matter whether it’s Gaza, or Iraq, or Syria or the Ukraine. It doesn’t matter whether it’s now; or the past; or the future. War is inhumane and uncivilised. And it is nearly always preventable and avoidable. Read More
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