By Pepper Parr
March 4th, 2024
BURLINGTON, ON
The tragedy taking place in Gaza with millions of people bombed out of their homes and pushed into the southern part of that small bit of land is not easy to fully understand.
There are certainly different and strongly held views on what Hamas did to the Israelis and what the Israelis are now doing to Hamas.
We are watching a very one sided war with people who are innocent – they just happen to live in that part of the world. Millions are starving to death – today, right now.
I want to share a short comment that came my way yesterday.
“We know what starvation does to the body: feeding on stores of fat, moving to the muscles, eroding the heart, shutting down the immune system, and ending in a slow and painful death. We watch as Israel hones starvation as a weapon of war.”
The Americans have begun to drop food into southern Gaza. What the aircraft below dropped is reported to be the equivalent of one truckload of food. More than 500 truckloads of food a day are needed to feed the two million people who are facing starvation.
This will never be forgotten.