Paul Hosford: Seeing dead children on our timelines is traumatic, but how do we avoid becoming desensitised?

Palestinian medics surround a baby wounded in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip in Khan Younis. Picture: AP

“ I saw a dead baby today/While I was sitting on the toilet/When a colleague sees me later and asks how I am/I’ll tell her fine, and I’ll smile.”

The poem posted to Instagram by the writer Elena M.I Duran is a gut punch and one that is achingly familiar to many people.