Watching the SBS news last night (Tuesday 25th July) at 6:30pm, I was very distrubed to see the images of the bombed red cross and ambulance vehicles and the image of the mother on the boat who was seperated from one of her children.
From the images, it appeared that the evacuation officer took a mother and two of her children leaving one child on the port platform. The mother (in Hijab) was screaming and pleading to the officer on the boat to return to pick up the child but to no avail. In what looked like an uncontrolled reaction, she started kissing his hand and touching his face in a very heart-wrenching way of saying "I beg you". The boat left the child.
I don't know what I would have done in her situation. Leave one child behind to save the lives of the other two on the boat. Jump off the boat to go the other child and leave the two others on board to go to Cyprus or whereever the destination was? A difficult question.
Mr Annan has indicated that Israel has intentionally targeted the UN location, which killed four UN staff. Pictures of the red cross vehicle appeared on TV with a gaping hole right in the centre of its roof and many other smaller bullet holes on the roof.
To me, Israel is a symbol for agression, occupation, in-humanity and all bad things that a human can do to another human.
Wednesday, July 26, 2006
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