I wish I had not read about Mohammed Hegazy, a seven-year-old Palestinian boy who was blinded by an Israeli grenade that blew up in his face as he played outside his home which is now rubble.

His father said he used to smile all the time. "Now we rarely see him smiling. He is having difficulty interacting with people due to his blindness and the psychological trauma he suffers,"

The father added: "He is constantly clinging to me and afraid to be separated from me, even more than a moment."

More than 17,000 of those killed in Gaza during the past year and a half have been children under 14 years of age. Some four to five times that number have been wounded, many very seriously.

There is something wrong with anyone who does not think all this killing, maiming and blinding of little children is not horrific. And most of it has been done by Israeli soldiers using billions of dollars worth of American bombs, shells and weaponry paid for by American taxpayers.

I wish I had not read about Hossan Shabat,23, a young journalist who was killed by the Israeli military in late March. He had a premonition and wrote shortly before his death the following: "When all this began, I was only 21 years old—a college student with dreams like everyone else."

He added: "I documented the horrors in northern Gaza minute by minute, determined to show the world the truth they tried to bury. I slept on pavements…anywhere I could. Each day was a battle for survival. I endured hunger for months, yet I never left my peoples' side."

At least 208 unarmed journalists have been killed in this one-sided slaughter. Shabat ended with this plea: "I ask you now: Do not let the world look away. Keep fighting. Keep telling our stories—until Palestine is free."

I wish I had not read about Fatima Hassouna, 24, who also had a premonition and was killed by an Israeli airstrike a few days before she was to be married.

She was a photojournalist who was killed in mid-April along with nine members of her family the day after it was announced that a documentary she made about her life in Gaza would be shown at the Cannes Film Festival this month.