Beautiful baby laughing

Interesting how Netanyahu didn't carpet bomb Hamas on the 7th when they stepped foot in Israel in plain sight. No excuse, wars have rules.

@mauveiscurious exactly this. If you can hear/see thousands of children dead in their pyjamas, with burns, missing limbs and utter any words other than 'Make it stop' you have a problem...

There is obviously a lot more context for the oppresor/oppressed relationship but quite honestly if you're backing a government who is breaking numerous international laws and who are quite literally stating their intentions of anhilation you need to take a good hard look at yourself.

Let's also not forget that the attacks on Gaza will put the hostages of Oct 7th in grave danger... Which says a lot about netanyahu's care for his own people.

@mauveiscurious are you this shortsighted to see what happened on the 7th October should happen to thousands of other innocent babies? God save our world from people like you, Netanyahu and hamas!

The utter horror of it.

Please sign the ceasefire petition.
March if you can on Saturday.

For Sunak and Starmer to be backing the depravity makes me feel sick.

@mauveiscurious an eye for an eye leaves everyone blind.

@mauveiscurious so because some terrorists who are not these children committed an atrocity on other children, thousands of children should die? It’s not even vaguely evening the score, if that would be right either.

I watch videos and then stop. Then I watch them again and stop.

It's so so awful.

I see my son's face in so many of the children's faces. It breaks my heart. They are so innocent, so so innocent.

It’s devastating for the families and children caught up on both sides. To pull your child mangled from the rubble of your former home must be unbearable but having your child held hostage in a warzone and not knowing anything about where or how they are must be equally unbearable.

Hamas are refusing to release hostages without a ceasefire. Israel are refusing a ceasefire until the hostages are released. Angry men with no compassion for the innocent civilians on either side pushing at each other too back down and both too proud to do it themselves. And it is innocent people who pay the price. At some point you would hope one side would back down and say okay, enough innocent lives lost, but in reality I doubt there is an end to this in sight. Thousands more innocent Palestinian children will lose their lives and most likely the Israeli hostages will too. The whole situation is just harrowing.

And I have just read about the Israeli mothers who have travelled to raise awareness of their children who were kidnapped by Hamas one month ago.
It is my worst nightmare knowing my children are either or in distress, scared, hurt and I don’t know where they are and cannot comfort them (or not knowing if they are dead or alive) completely excruciating.

7th October

@Toothyfruity i also have a young baby and I feel sick every time I see such images. What is happening to those poor children is heartbreaking and needless. everytime I look at my daughter I feel so grateful that she was lucky enough to have been born here, unlike the thousands of poor children who have been murdered for where they were born.

This is the worst thing which has happened in my living memory and I feel disgusted to be part of a country who is supporting it.

I am trying to avoid the awful videos but today I have still managed to see:

-A dead newborn with what looked like shrapnel wounds to the head

-A bench with 6 or 7 beautiful chubby little babies, mostly so young that they are wearing nappies, dead and laid out.

-People picking up body parts in the UN school and throwing them into bags.

-A boy outside the bombed hospital with his legs mangled. I'm not sure if he was dead or alive because when I see videos like that pop up I immediately scroll on.

-A traumatised young boy hysterically telling news cameras that he had carried a decapitated body after a bomb blast.

It's beyond outrageous and fucked up. Shame on the western nations who are supporting this and the disgraceful posters on Mumsnet who continue to defend Israel even after this week's atrocities.

I also have a small baby and this evening I was looking at her and feeling sick thinking about the fates of the little children in Gaza (and the West Bank given the increase in violence there too).