#NonHuman #Heartless and of course #Selfish Do u know your way to here?” she asked. “My dad is still refusing to leave but my mum gets panic attacks and high blood pressure.” 10am came and went and all we could hear was more airstrikes. Then word came through that the Israelis had rejected the five-hour ceasefire. “Yes, I noticed that there is no ceasefire since the shelling here intensified,” Adeem replied, when I told her. I said that there had been an astonishing response to my story of her plight. That it had been shared around widely on Twitter. Then she wrote: “Thank everyone one on my behalf. “Tell them their support and prayers make us much stronger.” That’s you, by the way. You, who are reading this. A couple of hours went by. Then this: “I am so sick and disgusted by the silence of the so-called international community. They react to what’s happening here as though Gaza not part of this planet.” It’s a sentiment shared by many here. When we filmed people flooding out of Shajaiyah the other day – the eastern suburb of Gaza city that has been bombarded in recent days – one man said to me: “Those who are doing this are not human. It is as if they come from some other planet.” The comment prompted me to wonder what Martians would make of all this, were they to suddenly drop in. - See more at: blogs.channel4/miller-on-foreign-affairs/last-night-hellish-trapped-gazas-fire-zone/1130#sthash.OSDxbapI.dpuf
Posted on: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 19:00:11 +0000