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Blood, tears of children in Gaza should prick world's conscience

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Israeli tanks head towards the Gaza Strip border in southern Israel on Thursday, October 12, 2023. [AP photo]

The gory images of crying children with bloodied faces, others on stretchers, some on rusty hospital beds fighting for their lives, while others agonising under the extreme pain of lost limbs or damaged organs should awaken the damp conscience of any person with an ounce of human feelings.

The world seems to have lost its humanity and now the unfettered powers and growing knowledge of man has turned him into a destructive beast.

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