Joyce Fegan: Looking away will not ease our repulsion at what continues to happen in Palestine

Children, and babies, have been a target in Gaza, with more than 20,000 killed, amounting to 30% of all people killed

The UN report contains dozens of incidences of obscene violence against children, babies, and even embryos carried out by Israeli forces. File Picture: Ahmad Hasaballah/Getty

"Looking away will not ease our repulsion, distress, or despair at what continues to happen to our fellow humans in Palestine.”

Insofar as possible, most of us strive to be good — to be sure to salute our postman on a daily basis, to keep a calendar of birthdays so our friends feel thought of, and to pay our respects at a funeral, even if nobody ever knows you were there.