I Won’t Stay Silent
If you’ve been paying attention at all for the last two weeks, you’ll know that Israel has been attacking and invading the Gaza Strip, allegedly in response to Hamas fire into Israel.
I don’t pretend to understand all the ins and outs of this situation. I don’t pretend to think I can do anything.
But I will not sit here and say nothing.
I am horrified by what I am seeing and hearing on television. What I read in news reports online. Horrified. Sickened.
Every day I think that it will be the end. Someone will see sense. The Israeli’s will pull back and this will just become another nightmare for the residents of Israel and Palestine to live with.
But it gets worse.
Tonight I read this on the ABC. For those of you who don’t want to click over, this is some of the parts that horrify me.
The UN report said that “according to several testimonies, on January 4, Israeli foot soldiers evacuated approximately 110 Palestinians into a single-residence house in Zeitun (half of whom were children) warning them to stay indoors. Twenty-four hours later, Israeli forces shelled the home repeatedly, killing approximately 30.”
Followed by this:
Israeli military spokeswoman Avital Leibovich said: “From initial checking, we don’t have knowledge of this incident. We started an inquiry but we still don’t know about it.”
This one also got me, from the same article:
UNRWA, the main UN agency in Gaza which provides food aid to half the territory’s 1.5 million people, said it had suspended its operations after tank shells hit a UN-flagged humanitarian convoy on Thursday, killing at least one person.
Like I said, I don’t know the answer, I don’t pretend to begin to understand the history, the issues. But the killing needs to stop. Human decency needs to reign. In the end these are not Israeli’s and Palestinians, Jews and Muslims. They are people. Mothers. Fathers. Children. Grandparents.
People need food. They need water. They need shelter.
People are being denied this things.
It needs to stop.
The killing needs to stop.
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I totally agree!
I agree with you totally on this issue. I too have no idea on the why’s and how’s of the history. Sometimes I wonder if those involved even know anymore either. But I do know that this is not solving anything - at least not from where I am standing. It just keeps on going and seemingly getting worse. Its sad that humanity has come to this… it seems such a pointless waste of life.
Amen, Kin!
I too confess to not understanding all the history and intricacies behind this on going conflict. However I cannot understand the absolute devastation that Israel is inflicting in the Gaza. I pray that sense is seen by all sides and that this stops.
Amen to that Kin.
It’s horrifying for sure, but what to do? Wars have been going on in one form or another since man first clubbed man over some cave. 2000 years on and they’re no different, in spite of all the progress that’s been made. Like everyone else, I wish they’d come to their senses. There is too much suffering.
Your right, this is so sad. I was listening to a “Save the Children” representative who is in Gaza on NPR. She was talking about how they have no food, water, and no electricity. It sickens me too that even children have to suffer through this. Why can they not let people evacuate? I don’t understand.