The issue for me is that many posters have seemingly been unable to express sympathy for the subject of my post (that poor young girl)
OP, I am finding your faux-naïveté around this rather irritating.
I imagine you have been around long enough to know that people want to see compassion for both sides. If someone just starts a thread about suffering in Gaza, people will highlight the attack by Hamas on the 7th of October. If you just post sympathy about the Israeli hostages, others will raise concerns about the current victims in Gaza. It’s what happens online.
Of course, it is understandable to be moved by images. But if you just post a photo of an Israeli child from October, whilst not acknowledging the current Gazan children being killed, it is going to elicit a different response from the one you apparently expected. You could have also posted one of the many photographs of children from Gaza, who are also terrified, injured and bereaved. If they also moved you.
The Internet polarises people. I expect most people are in the middle like me. I am also haunted by the terrorist attacks in Israel. I simply don’t know how any parent of the Israeli hostage children gets up in the morning and functions. If I was the mother of the poor young woman who was raped and paraded, I am not sure how I could survive life ever again. At the same time, I am traumatised by the image of injured Gazan children, shaking in fear and covered in bomb debris from attacks happening today.
If you are going to start a post about the Israeli children suffering, without saying you are similarly disturbed by images of Gazan children, at this stage of the ‘game’, you are going to receive the responses you have. I’m not sure you can be surprised. I think you knew what you were doing when you started this thread.