EVERY parent will tell you that the most heartbreaking imagined fear haunting the darkest reaches of the night is that of losing a child.
Much, much worse, though, must be the anguish of parents who have actually experienced such a horror and who will live with the pain of it every day for the rest of their lives.
What is now happening to innocent children and adults in Gaza must, however, be condemned with equal rigour. Neither national nor international law permits the collective punishment of whole communities let alone a blockade of their essential supplies while they are being relentlessly bombarded day and night from land, sea and air.
Given the deep roots of the Arab/Israeli conflict, it is certain that even if Hamas is virtually wiped out, the anger and enmity of Israel’s neighbours will continue and will flare up again. That suffering is physical but it is also mental and the mental health effects of bombardment and warfare are well documented. There is a complex interaction between actual damage to the brain from repeated exposure to explosions and the physiological effect of constant fear and uncertainty in violent circumstances which are out of one’s control.
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