Mine, too.
Long ago, it became a familiar and sickening echo of only the latest massacre of many. Israel has provoked again~ beyond all reason and without a shred of humanity, for it has none! From Duma to Al- Aqsa and in every corner of Palestine.
The Nation published this today:
“VIDEO: Living Under Israel’s Missiles
Four boys of the Bakr family were killed by a missile strike during last year’s incursion. Their surviving family members are still scarred from the attack.
By Dan Cohen and Rebecca Pierce
More than anyone, children bear the brunt of regular Israeli military assaults on the Gaza Strip. During the 51-day war in the summer of 2014, 551 children were killed and 3,436 were injured. But these gruesome figures say little about the psychological state of the nearly 800,000 children who have survived the periodic bombing campaigns.
After the final cease-fire that ended Israel’s Operation Protective Edge on August 26 of last year, UNICEF estimated that at least 425,000 Palestinian children in the besieged Gaza Strip require “immediate psychosocial and child protection support.”
“Data from our community centers shows that about 50 percent of children referred to us have developed post-traumatic stress disorder,” said Dr. Yasser Abujamei, the executive director of the Gaza Community Mental Health Programme, “and another 10 percent have problems with bedwetting.”…”
more @ link to thenation.com
Continuous traumatic stress disorder, aided and abetted by the uncivilized supporters of the Occupation. Yes, the ‘West’ and too many others.