Inexcusable

Soon it will be one year.

With over 40,000 recorded deaths,

and the expected actual total being over double that,

What do we do now?

They are trying to escape

but they are killing them.

They tell them to evacuate

and then bomb the safe zones.

We donate and try to get food in

but they hijack the aid trucks.

They are mistaking air strikes for aid deliveries.

They are delivering food that is inconsumable.

The journalists are trying to show us what is happening

but they are being murdered too.

How many war crimes is too many?

Why won't the world wake up to what is happening?

And when will the world stop making excuses?

Is it because they are Muslim?

That can't be right. There are Jews and Christians there, too.

Is it because they're not white?

Is it because they speak Arabic?

What is the problem?

Why does the world care less about them?

Why is it that 40,000 people is deemed "collateral damage" or "war casualties"

but if it happened on our land

or if it was happening in Europe

those terms would never be used.

It's not a war.

But you're sure quick to call it that.

It's a genocide.

War crimes are inexcusable.

No matter where they happen.

I wish this was fiction.

But every time I open social media, I am reminded that it's not.

How many bodies of children do we need to share?

How many rape stories? Bombs? People trapped under rubble? Beheaded children? Families burned alive? Malnutritioned children who starved to death?

How many?