Crimes in Gaza

Sharing the post of Miranda Pinch. This is from Facebook.

“I am almost afraid of accepting friend requests from those in Gaza. Afraid, because I can hardly bear to read their pleas anymore. They used to cry out for money to help them with education or to buy medicine or to build a roof over their heads, now they scream out in desperation, in agony, in utter despair wondering what the point is in anything anymore.

2 million people crammed together in an absolute hell hole with no means of escape, forced to live a slow agonising death.

Children are being born malformed or dying from untreated infections, injuries or the polluted water. Adults, who have old injuries and disabilities and no way of helping themselves or their children.

ALL are suffering from constant stress and fear as Israeli drones constantly fly overhead, monitoring without any care, and killing with impunity. They are quiet, but the war planes constantly flying overhead are not.

Then there are the illnesses and deaths from the herbicides sprayed onto their crops close to the border, not only destroying farmland and livelihoods, but drifting beyond.

The firing by Israel on fishermen desperate to feed even themselves from the polluted waters and shot at even for venturing near the limits imposed on them.

The refusal to allow even children out for treatment without their becoming informers or spies for Israel and where they cannot be threatened into it, the plain refusal and slow death.

There are educated and erudite people in Gaza. There are people who in different circumstances would live lives like you or me, but because of an accident of birth, of having the misfortune to be born Palestinian and who have been born in Gaza, have fled to Gaza or have been forced to Gaza are now condemned to die a slow agonising death and the world just turns away and allows it.

I feel so hopeless and ashamed and guilty, yet I am, like many of my friends trying to do something even though it often feels futile, but there are so many 'educated' people who either are ignorant, turn the other way, accuse the innocent of being the cause of their own demise, or who only see the trade deals and not the suffering. I feel utterly ashamed to be Jewish and British and Christian and European or a member of Western nations. I am all of those and despite my education, freedoms, riches, I feel utterly impotent.”