Shafaqna India: The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) has cautioned that the frequent display of brutality in Israel’s war on Gaza has led to a dangerous normalization of the horror.
“We have all become so accustomed to images of brutality and destruction in Gaza that it has now become dangerously normalised,” 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 stated.
“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 emphasized.
“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.
