What will the children who survive the onslaught of Gaza think of those who let it happen? | Simon Tisdall

Hour by hour, they are being killed, maimed and traumatised, while the leaders of our nations fail to intervene

The screams of children are difficult to hear over the noise and fury of the Gaza maelstrom. So it's doubly important to listen out for their cries, because what is happening to them, right now, is truly terrible. No, don't look away. Don't close this tab. This is your problem, too.

Long after this war is over, the violent deaths of at least 1,750 children - the total rises daily - and the maiming of the minds and bodies of thousands more will be remembered as an epic failure of human decency for which all may eventually pay a price.

Simon Tisdall is a foreign affairs commentator. He has been a foreign leader writer, foreign editor and US editor for the Guardian

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