A child eats food rations last Wednesday in Gaza City. Across the Strip the whole population is 'at critical risk of famine', according to a multi-agency report published this week. Photograph: Haitham Imad/EPA That the news from Gaza, the West Bank and Israel has come to us “not single spies but in battalions” is to state the obvious: wave after wave of published and broadcast opinion, outraged letters and cartoons have flooded our psychic space. But it is the relentless flow of video footage beamed on to our screens by legacy and social media that has kept this hideous conflict...