Irish Examiner view: US aid, arms, and mixed messages

Ceasefire in Gaza is needed more than ever

People rush to landing humanitarian aid packages dropped over the northern Gaza Strip on Tuesday. Picture: AFP via Getty Images

The coverage of the savagery in Gaza is necessary and informative, but it can also have an adverse effect on our consciousness of the conflict. 

On a regular basis we are registering the fact that people are being killed and maimed on the ground in that part of the world, yet we are also becoming inured to that fact, partly by dint of repetition and partly because our experience is an abstract one.