Gaza 2020: How Easy It Is For The World To Delete Palestinian Pain

I would like you to try an exercise.

Google the words  “family of eight killed” and you will be given several options – one in Sonora, Mexico, another in Pike, Ohio, yet another in Mendocino County, California.

But Google’s massive memory seems to have suffered amnesia over what took place just two months ago in Deir al-Balah, Gaza.

To recap, because you, too, may have forgotten: on 14 November, an Israeli pilot dropped a one-tonne JDAM bomb on a building where eight members of one family were sleeping.

Five of them were children. Two of them were infants.

At first, the Israeli army tried to lie its way out of responsibility for the killing of al-Sawarka family (one other