Seeing, they say, is believing. Evidence, supposedly, generates action. But as we see the images from Gaza, of starving people, wasting children, and bodies that are being hollowed out from within, the only action seems to be bizarre, conditional promises of statehood that are both offensive and mind boggling at the same time. One has to ask, if a man-made famine, broadcast in real time, does not compel us to do something from another human being, what would? Is the notion of caring for other human beings just an abstract notion with no real substance? Are the only kids who matter are our own?

While Gaza's starvation and horror is making headlines at the moment, the issue of our collective apathy is not limited to a particular place on the planet. Weaponisation of food and water is not a new tactic. For those who have been paying attention, the deliberate denial of life saving commodities, or intentional targeting of the most basic human........

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