newsChristian leaders in Britain stay silent as graves as millions face starvation in Gaza
A statue of the Madonna with a child at Ripon Cathedral in Yorkshire. Three Mother and Child sculptures in copper by the York artist Harold Gosney attract a great response from visitors. Love of children is central to the Christian message. (Picture: Trevor Grundy
By TREVOR GRUNDY
In March 1960, sixty-nine Africans were shot dead at Sharpeville.
The name Sharpeville and the figure 69 symbolised the horror of apartheid.
For decades after Anglican and Roman Catholics clerics, often with small children on their shoulders, marched around Trafalgar Square to show their disgust at the political system in South Africa.
Today, its more of the same. Just in a different part of the world.
On July 5, 2025 a BBC report said: A further 138 people were killed by Israeli forces in Gaza in the last 24 hours, the territory’s Hamas-run health ministry says, bringing the total death toll since the start of the war to 61,158.
The ministry says 771 injured people arrived in Gaza’s hospitals in the past day and a number of victims remain under the rubble as ambulances and Gaza’s civil defence crews cannot reach them.
Also in their latest update, the health ministry went on to outline the number of casualties and fatalities of those seeking aid.
It says 87 people were killed while trying to get aid, and 570 others were injured.
UN officials fear not only starvation but planned genocide in Gaza
OH RASCAL CHILDREN OF GAZA
by Khaled Juma
Oh rascal children of Gaza,
You who constantly disturbed me with
your screams under my window,
You who filled every morning with rush
and chaos,
You who broke my vase and stole
the lonely flower on my balcony,
Come back –
And scream as you want,
And break all the vases,
Steal all the flowers,
Come back,
Just come back . . .: