Is it too much to ask people to view Palestinians as humans? Apparently so | Arwa Mahdawi

As the last few weeks have made abundantly clear, Palestinian lives don't count

I do not want to ever hear western democracies lecture the rest of the world on human rights ever again.

As I write this more than 10,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israel's bombardment of Gaza. Almost half of them children. One child is being killed every 10 minutes in Gaza. Those numbers, it should be noted, only count the kids who are dying as a direct result of Israel's indiscriminate bombing. The kids who were lucky' enough to die instantaneously in an air strike. And the not so lucky' ones: innocent children buried under rubble, dying painful and protracted deaths as they are suffocated by the eviscerated remains of their home.

Arwa Mahdawi is a Guardian US columnist