This is truly a heartrending story:
The 10-Year-Old Boy Who Has Become the Face of Starvation in Gaza
(link in headline, excerpts below). The "elephant in the room" is why Hamas is not being asked to "stop the war."
The 10-Year-Old Boy Who Has Become the Face of Starvation in Gaza
(link in headline, excerpts below). The "elephant in the room" is why Hamas is not being asked to "stop the war."
The paradox is that Israel is being asked to allow a "cease fire" so that Hamas can rebuild. Hamas started a war that it could not finish, this time. They hope to weaken Israel's ability to run a first-world society, and eventually force Israel to "give up." Time for the West to "stick to its guns," literally.New York Times said:It is all too easy to trace the skull beneath the Gazan boy’s face, the pallid skin stretching tight over every curve of bone and sagging with every hollow. His chin juts with a disturbing sharpness. His flesh has shrunk and shriveled, life reduced to little more than a thin mask over an imminent death.
In one of a series of news photographs of the boy, Yazan Kafarneh, taken with his family’s permission as he struggled for his life, his long-lashed eyes stare out, unfocused. In that widely shared picture online, his right hand, bandaged over an intravenous line, contracts in on itself at an awkward angle, a visible marker of his cerebral palsy.
He was 10, but in photographs from his last days at a clinic in southern Gaza, he looks both small for his age and at the same time ancient. By Monday, Yazan was dead.