Imagine 72,264 children being murdered in less than 100 days

 

If we compare Gaza to Canada, we get a local sense of the breadth of the destruction

The headline in the Globe and Mail reads: One Percent of Children in Gaza Have Been Killed.

Or, it should read that. If the Globe deemed children newsworthy, there would be an article that had this as a headline. But of the 71 articles tagged Israel-Hamas at the the Globe and Mail’s website since mid-December, not one of them has the word “child” in the headline.

Media and politicians alike have worked overtime to make us think that Israel’s war is against Hamas. That might be what we’re calling it and that might be the justification for the slaughter that Israel has advanced, but it is, above all, a war against children.

“GAZA: 10,000 children killed in nearly 100 days of war” reads the headline from Save the Children.

10,000 children in nearly 100 days of war.

10,000 babies, toddlers, school children and teenagers in nearly 100 days of war.

Children, or as Israeli politician Ayelet Shaked famously called them, “little snakes.”

Where Justin Trudeau has tweeted about Hamas 57 times since October 7, he has said nothing about children who have been the biggest victims in this war.

Israel was in The Hague this morning, denying that murdering 1% of a population’s children in less than 100 days is tantamount to eventual genocide. That it’s just collateral damage for their obsession with murdering everyone who they say might be Hamas.

If any country had attacked that many Canadian children, we would be grappling with the murder of 72,264 children in less than 100 days.  (more...)

Imagine 72,264 children being murdered in less than 100 days