At least 115 Palestinians starved to death by Israel’s blockade, says Gaza health ministry.
Host of Al Jazeera's The Listening Post
This is a story about scale, about humanity, about massive war crimes. But the pictures that seem to be having a real significant impact, starting to show up on the front pages of newspapers in the UK and elsewhere, tend to be smaller scale.
There’s the picture put out by the Palestinian journalist Ahmed al-Arini, the child being held in his mother’s arms, the child’s back to us, the profile visible to us.
Another reason that this image has gained the kind of traction that other images have not is that this picture also captures the face of the mother. Any parent will tell you that their biggest fear in life, their biggest nightmare, is the suffering of their child, and this image somehow captures both those things.
