oh god I want to go around hugging each and every one of them like Mother Meera. It feels like there is no end in sight to this horrendous cycle of revenge and and further escalation. It feels like every time I see IDF soldiers they look young and so handsome and beautiful and they should be living life and loving and having families like young men and women who are blessed and should be forward looking.

read this in a Guardian article today...

“First, they’ll go to emergency and then they’ll come to me,” said Paul Ley, an orthopaedic surgeon with the International Committees of the Red Cross, who has been operating on civilian casualties of Israeli airstrikes for weeks. The howl of ambulance sirens could be heard in the distance as he talked to the Observer.

When contacted again in early evening, Ley had performed eight amputations, including the double amputation of legs from a two-year-old child, whose entire family had been wiped out earlier in the day, except for one badly injured brother."