ALMOST every day, after watching the internet news site Democracy Now! — which has very closely covered the Israeli-Hamas war, unlike most of the Western media that has largely downplayed it — I get a bit depressed seeing severely wounded Palestinian children being rushed to a hospital and, now more often, the limp bodies of murdered kids being carried by their fathers wailing in grief.
Just last week, and going viral on social media, were two photographs of a 10-year-old girl living in the Gaza Strip, Tala Abu Ajwa, the first of a beautiful child in a pose with a Mona Lisa-like subdued smile. In the second, the same girl, her face and body hidden, her pink roller skates sticking out from underneath hospital sheets in an emergency room in Gaza. An Israeli missile killed her a few minutes after her father relented at her pleas to be allowed to go out of their house to use her prized rollerblades. The strike killed eight other people, including a neighbor's toddler son.
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