This week the news from Gaza has been so gut-wrenchingly awful that it is tempting to turn away. To stop reading. To stop looking.

But we mustn’t. We know that our readers have been solidly with us as we have run story after story, seeking the truth on the Israel/Palestine war, since it began in October 2023.

I remember, not long after I began in late March, John and I discussed, at length, whether it was right to publish a very confronting picture of a young Palestinian girl reduced to a shadow of her previous self by hunger and illness. In the end we chose to run the picture. We knew that our readers were well acquainted with what was really happening in Palestine,........

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