Just can’t watch Tv news anymore

Mamie

FriedGreenTomatoes2

Hopefully now someone will have the sense to organise the aid to go in to feed the children and stop playing political games. 🤞

You mean stop shooting children as they queue up for food? Did you see the British doctor talking about targeted injuries, on Sky news this morning?

Mamie this was the interview I saw on Sky which made me weep ..the dr said he had treated the same child/children with different wounds/different parts of the body in the same week !..he thought they were being used as target practice….awful awful world for them..
Just hope and pray (very hard) that these wars end soon and the vital aid gets to them…

Bea Thank you.

We have stopped watching the 10 0'clock News as I had real difficulties sleeping and nightmares as everything is such a mess at the moment. We watch early evening News then switch off at 10.

Boz

You need to remember that most of the horror pictures come from Hamas officials, who you can guarantee are not starving.

Vile comment.

I hardly ever watch the news eazybee but I try and keep up with what is going on by reading national and international online news several times a day.

I not sure that you have to watch the news, as avidly watching achieves about as much as hiding away, ie nothing. Perhaps ignorance is bliss but I wouldn't know.

You have to watch the news to try and understand what is going on, even if you are unable to help. Hiding away will achieve nothing.
I am amazed at how many people have little idea of what is going on in Britain, let alone the rest of the world, because they ignore News, on television, radio and print. This is why they are wide open to propaganda.

Not sure what your post about short memories was in answer to Whitewave.

I feel the same bea65. I also wonder a bit about the ethics of filming such suffering. Do all television services really need to have journalists and camera teams in Gaza? I suppose having them there means justifying the expense by using their footage at length while warning us that it contains 'distressing images'.

Getting back to the thread.

I do take your point bea65.

We rarely watch the news. In fact I have never felt so miserable as I do at the moment and I am caught in a trap. I simply can’t ignore what is happening to the children, and I must respect and recognise their suffering. I do this by mailing my MP and other people. But at the same time, I am loaded with gloom and unhappiness as how another human can be so evil, particularly when one would hope that one would have learned from history, but it seems not.

People have just short memories.

So Israel stopped all aid getting into Gaza in about March, and hasn’t allowed any to flow in since.

It is the longest complete blockade.

The UN staff left in Gaza have been bombed and shot snd staff has been withdrawn.

The charity set up by the USA and Israel, GHF, has zero experience of the type of situation in which they find themselves and consequently the management of aid to the Palestinians has been chaotic. Indeed the IDF seem to be treating the whole thing, of people queueing for aid as a game of target practice, and over 1000 have been killed since the GHF started attempting to give out food.

The EU has stated that Israel is failing to give out the agreed level of aid.

And the UN strongly disputed Israel’s assertion that it was not giving out aid.

Who to believe?

Well ask yourself the question.

Who set up the blockade.

Who continues to blockade the medicines and food etc so badly needed.

Who has stated a clear aim of clearing Gaza entirely of Palestinians

Doesn’t take much intelligence to work that out does it?

M0nica

Sticking your head in the sand does nothing to stop these atrocities happen.

perhaps if more of us were prepared to watch the news and protest something might happen.

Are you off to protest M0nica?

Recently I've found the footage of the starving children and slaughtered people queuing for aid in Gaza really hard to take .
I have been praying for them for a long time .

FriedGreenTomatoes2

Hopefully now someone will have the sense to organise the aid to go in to feed the children and stop playing political games. 🤞

You mean stop shooting children as they queue up for food? Did you see the British doctor talking about targeted injuries, on Sky news this morning?

Boz If most of the pictures come from Hamas officials that is because Israel will not allow independent journalists into Gaza.

However, British doctors have related the terrible scenes they have witnessed and there is film of the many children who are just skin and bones. There is no excuse for this sort of barbarity perpetrated against a whole group of people.

I don’t hide my head in the sand at all Monica you can still read the news online and I do watch the news I just can’t watch it over and over

Good point Boz.

You need to remember that most of the horror pictures come from Hamas officials, who you can guarantee are not starving.

Hopefully now someone will have the sense to organise the aid to go in to feed the children and stop playing political games. 🤞

And yet.

Israel has given a tour of a large storage site within Gaza containing what it claims to be 1,000 lorries-worth of aid that the United Nations (UN) has failed to deliver.

The move on Thursday intensified a row with the international community, which has become increasingly critical of starvation levels in the Strip.

Amid escalating warnings of famine, Israel has in recent days sought to blame the UN and major NGOs for not distributing available supplies, saying it has placed no restrictions on them doing so.

It released well-produced drone footage showing what appeared to be aid packages across a multiple-hectare site within the perimeter wire.

Can we now just admit that Israel has allowed more humanitarian aid into a war zone than any other country previously, and that it is the UN that is not doing its job?

It's a tricky one for me. I prefer the radio these days to seeing graphic images on my screen, yet I think I owe it to the suffering to accept the reality of their lives...

What I don't like is the repetition of the images through out the day- it's often just the same stuff and that annoys me. It's as if the media has the shots it needs so they go with that.

The media has far too much influence but no one can stop it...

I am not RC, I am Jewish and I am in tears most nights for those poor children. I wish I could scoop them up and help them. However I have to watch the news, it tells me we should be grateful!

Bea65

Aldom

Bea65 how do you think those of us who were not raised RC feel?
We too have empathy with the people of Gaza and weep at man's inhumanity to man.
We also feel for the people of Israel who suffered at the hands of Hamas.
I really don't think a person's religion or lack of it has anything to do with how desperately sad and horrified we feel about this utterly dreadful situation.

I didn’t mean to exclude anyone ..😢

Or OFFEND anyone, just feeling desperately sad at latest news

Aldom

Bea65 how do you think those of us who were not raised RC feel?
We too have empathy with the people of Gaza and weep at man's inhumanity to man.
We also feel for the people of Israel who suffered at the hands of Hamas.
I really don't think a person's religion or lack of it has anything to do with how desperately sad and horrified we feel about this utterly dreadful situation.

I didn’t mean to exclude anyone ..😢

Does everyone else still have a mental picture of those starving children that were shown at Live Aid accompanied by that music from The Cars? To think that things like that are still happening. It’s the children that suffer the most in wartime. What if we’d done to Ireland at the time of the IRA bombing campaign the things that Israel are doing to the Palestinians?

Bea65 how do you think those of us who were not raised RC feel?
We too have empathy with the people of Gaza and weep at man's inhumanity to man.
We also feel for the people of Israel who suffered at the hands of Hamas.
I really don't think a person's religion or lack of it has anything to do with how desperately sad and horrified we feel about this utterly dreadful situation.