Is anyone's mental health affected by simply reading about the horrors of October 7th

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I keep reading details in the Daily Mail and I know journalists have been given a video of the atrocities but it is absolutely harrowing. I understand large broadcasters can not go into detail as the events were to shocking for a general audience and in reality I think even written descriptions are worse than any thing I have read or watched.

Has anyone felt some outlet to express disgust is helpful (as some sort of therapy)?

And 16 countries don't allows Israeli's in.

@Milkandhoneybees
You wanted to see a credible source for the bit about hands and feet cut off - from 05:44 here, this sort of thing is mentioned by Indian journalist Gaurav Sawant, who viewed the Hamas bodycam footage and describes how a family breakfast turned into unimaginable horror. I won't describe it here, as it will give me nightmares for the rest of my life, but maybe this is what you want to see/hear?

Why has no other journalist other than one that hates Muslims, cared to mention it? They were all shown the same thing.

He wrote an article a few days ago quoting an Indian ambassador in saying that Israel is trying its best to get aid into Gaza. This could not be any further from the truth.

https://www.indiatoday.in/amp/world/story/israel-hamas-war-gaza-humanitarian-supplies-aid-india-envoy-ceasefire-2455860-2023-10-31

India has been one of the main sources of fake news regarding Israel/Gaza:

https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/economy/2023/10/27/shifting-politics-make-india-a-hotbed-for-israel-hamas-war-misinformation

I can’t get the images out of my head of the thousands of babies and children. Some of the images will remain with me forever. It’s such a sad sad time

So would it be ok for me to say I personally know some Palestinian families who were massacred and therefore sympathise more with Palestinian children than those of Israelis?

You’re going to need to be specific about which countries you’re referring to in order for me to respond. I assume are referring to a GCC country? Infringement of which liberties?

I don’t quite understand your point. Are you saying that a country can only have peace if it simultaneously encroaches on the liberties of its citizens?

I think we would be perfectly fine and terrorism-free in the UK if the UK hadn’t decided to commit atrocities in Muslim countries all in the name of oil and fossil fuel.

You can also apply that quote in reverse - why are Hamas not doing those things for their people?

Erm, at which point did I say that I think Hamas are a competent government and are for their people?

I don’t like them one bit. Unpopular opinion, but I think that religion and politics should be entirely separate. I am pro-secular government policy and law.

Now with that being said, even if there was a competent, secular government, Gaza and the West Bank could never achieve those things.

Here are some of the reasons why:

https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/17/how-israel-uses-water-to-control-west-bank-palestine

https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2022/03/israels-55-year-occupation-palestinian-territory-apartheid-un-human-rights

https://www.savethechildren.net/news/stripped-beaten-and-blindfolded-new-research-reveals-ongoing-violence-and-abuse-palestinian

@Milkandhoneybees That's interesting about India!

Hmm, it looks as though this particular story originates with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who apparently described footage he had seen.

I guess the only way we can be sure is to browse hamas-massacre.net, but that is absolutely the very last thing you're going to catch me doing...!

@Milkandhoneybees I wasn't actually looking for a response from you.

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