Throughout the two weeks of the Israeli attacks on Gaza, Jonathan Miller of Britain’s Channel 4 has challenged both the Israeli authorities and Hamas with his first-hand accounts of death and destruction, via both television and social media. He has challenged other posters on Twitter — “WRONG! Gaza is occupied. I don’t just mean the invasion. Israel controls land sea + air” — and retweeted observations cutting to the core of the conflict:
The real problem is not rockets. The real problem is a people living without rights and without hope. Fix that and you'll fix extremism
— Gershon Baskin (@gershonbaskin) July 17, 2014
On Sunday, Miller tweeted soon after he toured Shaja’ia, where more than 70 people were killed by a 12-hour Israeli bombardment:
#c4news #Gaza Doctors at Shifa Hospital describe last night as "a massacre". I have seen there which I will never be able to unsee.
— Jonathan Miller (@millerC4) July 20, 2014
He followed up, “It is the stuff of nightmares. It feels like war is being waged against children.”
This was Miller’s report for Channel from Shaqa’ia, after his introductory summary to camera:
