Videos - Gaza Attacks
The following videos are footage of what's been happening in Gaza for the past week. They're disturbing and graphic, but I strongly believe that adults should watch them - we need to fully understand what's happening, not just brush over a few news articles and discard them as 'depressing.'
In the first video, the man at 1:52 is giving his declaration of faith, a practice which Muslims do right before they die.
The second video shows people streaming into hospitals, all of which are low on supplies and struggling to deal with the number of people being brought in.
I'm not someone who "sides" with any one government here - in fact, that's impossible, because no one can really agree who both sides are. In theory, this fight is between Hamas and the Israeli government. However, the lines are blurred, and I simply can't find any way to rationalize the numbers of innocent Palestinians who have been killed or are suffering and starving due to all of the area's supplies being cut off. Yes, Israel has a right to protect itself, and an end most certainly needs to come to the rocket strikes being carried out by Hamas. But killing hundreds of innocent civilians doesn't seem like lateral retribution to me, and the situation in Gaza is only breeding more hatred for the Israeli people among young Palestinians, who will in turn grow up to plan new attacks on Israel. It's a tragic cycle, and the worst thing that the world can do is to continue to turn a blind eye.
In the first video, the man at 1:52 is giving his declaration of faith, a practice which Muslims do right before they die.
The second video shows people streaming into hospitals, all of which are low on supplies and struggling to deal with the number of people being brought in.
I'm not someone who "sides" with any one government here - in fact, that's impossible, because no one can really agree who both sides are. In theory, this fight is between Hamas and the Israeli government. However, the lines are blurred, and I simply can't find any way to rationalize the numbers of innocent Palestinians who have been killed or are suffering and starving due to all of the area's supplies being cut off. Yes, Israel has a right to protect itself, and an end most certainly needs to come to the rocket strikes being carried out by Hamas. But killing hundreds of innocent civilians doesn't seem like lateral retribution to me, and the situation in Gaza is only breeding more hatred for the Israeli people among young Palestinians, who will in turn grow up to plan new attacks on Israel. It's a tragic cycle, and the worst thing that the world can do is to continue to turn a blind eye.