A "complicated" issue.

Facebook is a forum to air one's views on a miriad of issues. People deplore the way that others treat animals and I am subjected to an endless stream of graphic images of starving dogs and mutilated pachyderms. I am well aware of these realities and have voiced my despair time and time again. But, I have spotted an elephant in the room. There is a noticable lack of any outrage surrounding what can only be described as carnage in Gaza. People, innocent men, women and children, are dying in their hundreds. Soldiers dying is part of their understood job description, but civilians? I do not condone war in any form. I have watched the endless debates, read all I can and tried to understand the actual dynamics of the situation. What strikes me is the way the problem is referred to by the players as "complicated" time and time again. I think this is the reason why people are reluctant to air their feelings.  It is so "complicated" that although a people are being persecuted, no one is certain how fair their comments may be. Perhaps people are afraid to appear insensitive? I am commenting on what I have witnessed and cannot justify what looks like a massacre. The television footage of the dead and dying lying in blood-filled streets with horrific injuries, hearing the anguished cries of terrified relatives shocked this hardened paramedic. The fact that the sanctity of hospitals has been attacked is surely against the Geneva Convention. As the number of injured mount, medical staff struggle to cope and vital resources rapidly dwindle adding to the misery. Collateral damage is an (un) acceptable fact of war, but I don't see much care being attempted to limit civilian casualties. It almost seems as if the civilians being maimed or killed are not seen as people. This perpetrated by a people who have suffered at the hands of a regime who did not see them as people, reduced them to numbers, starved them then gassed them like animals. This atrocity has been universally accepted as one of the most dire of human tragedies and we are encouraged to remember this so that that level of cruelty never happens again. . . And yet a people who should know better through experience are, it would appear, essentially committing a similar act over land. I struggle to find the sense. Anger at injustice has boiled over, both sides have their unwavering grievances.  But both sides have the choice to escalate or lay down the gauntlet and put an end to this.  I fervently hope that a full and final peace is reached for all, but as they said, its "complicated."