Column: The West can no longer ignore Gaza's humanity

Mohammed Abu Rumman, a researcher at the Centre for Strategic Studies at the University of Jordan, argues in a Middle East Eye column that the West has turned a “blind eye” to humanitarian atrocities in Gaza. 

“This is a blatant affirmation that western governments do not see Palestinians as human beings, nor even as animals; they are viewed as something else, perhaps less, and this distinction extends even to children, women, the elderly and the ill,” he writes.

“The Israeli narrative has spread across the West with extreme ease, successfully demonising Hamas as an extension of the Islamic State. Israeli and US officials have drawn comparisons to 9/11, which have been enthusiastically picked up by the western media machine.” 

Read Abu Rumman’s column below:

The West can no longer ignore Gaza's humanity