Words Fail Me


Take a good look at the front page of The Independent and then try and show support for what Israel is currently doing in the Gaza Strip and the Lebanon.

Israel pounds south Lebanon

Exodus from southern Lebanon on the coastal road

Aid groups fear UN deaths fallout

Babies among dead on Gaza front line

Only the bloodstains on their white shrouds spoke of the tragedy that had unfolded. Two Palestinian girls, one just eight months old, were dead. They were killed when an Israeli tank shell struck a house near Jabalya in the besieged Gaza Strip.

Yesterday marked the end of Cpl Gilad Shalit's first month in captivity and Israel stepped up operations inside the Strip in an operation codenamed Sampson's Pillar.

The ferocity of the response to that kidnapping, and the determination of operations to stop Palestinian militants' rockets, saw a barrage of air strikes and raids yesterday that killed at least 19 Palestinians, including three children and a handicapped man.

I think my outrage metre has just broken, how worse can this conflict get?

Even in Israel doubts are starting to be raised about the IDF's tactics in southern Lebanon

Iraq contiues its downward spiral - Twin blasts 'kill 27' in Baghdad


Palestinian children look at the body of Sabah Abu Haleeb, a three year old girl, who was killed during an attack by Israeli troops, in Gaza city July 26, 2006. Israeli forces killed 10 Palestinians, including seven militants and a three-year-old girl in fighting across the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, medics and witnesses said. (PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES)

26 Jul 2006 REUTERS/Ahmed Jadallah