Another Bloody Sunday...

[i_kender]

I avoided watching the news all weekend, having an early night on Friday and spending Saturday quietly relaxing at home before going out on Saturday night with buddleia and spent all day with her on Sunday too. It was wonderful.

However Monday morning arrives and with it headlines I can't ignore. I was so furious this morning I nearly cried at my desk at work.

There can be absolutely no justification for this:

Israeli airstrikes kill more than 60 people including 34 children in strike on two familes hiding in the basement of their building.

“ Family photos - one showing two young children - were scattered in the debris. Mohsen Hachem stared at the images. 'They had to have known there were children in that house,' he said. 'The drones are always overhead, and those children - there were more than 30 - would play outside all day.' ... The strike that destroyed the building was a precision-guided bomb dropped from the air, the same kind of bomb that destroyed a UN position in Khiyam last week, killing four UN observers. "

Did you read that? A "precision-guided bomb"... that means this building was targeted. That means someone did this deliberately. One rescue worker pulled out body after body before collapsing in tears because they were all children.

The worldwide outcry has been so extreme that even the US has now declared that an immediate ceasefire is probably a good idea. And right away, Israel declared that they would halt their air strikes for 48 hours.

And four hours later, they started again.

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[buddleia.livejournal.com]

I did cry. I had to hide in my office for a little while.

[i_kender]

Oh honey *hugs you*