Osvaldo Gutierrez Gomez (Osval) / Cuba
"Huella Zionista" *** "Zionist Heel"

Oslo, June 16 (RHC)-- The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) has warned that images of brutality from Israel’s war on Gaza have become so common that there is a danger of the horror becoming “normalized.”  

“We have all become so accustomed to images of brutality and destruction in Gaza that it has now become dangerously normalized,” said Suze van Meegen, NRC’s head of operations in Gaza.

“Even after more than eight months of violence, there was absolutely nothing normal about the scale and ferocity of attacks on civilians in Gaza’s Middle Area last week,” van Meegen said.

“It is not normal for a whole population to live in constant fear and with overwhelming grief.  It is not normal to feel your safety is at greater risk in a school or hospital than elsewhere.  It is not normal for a community to bury hundreds of people each week,” she said.

“The use of a unilaterally declared ‘humanitarian zone’ as a battleground last week betrays any suggestion of civilian protection or respect for humanitarian space,” she added.