Massacre of the Innocents 8 billion people of the world are forced to helplessly watch 9 million Israelis massacre 2 million inhabitants of Gaza, corralled in a mere 45 sq km, the size of DHA Karachi. Powerful countries that could stop this massacre choose not to, countries whose strident moral policing of human rights across the world sound hollow as they openly support Israel’s aggressions, despite protests by their own citizens whose voices are brushed aside. Throughout the history of humans, merciless actions of aggression have traumatized those who long for peace. Artists, poets and songwriters have found the story of the Massacre of Innocents a powerful symbol of the horrors of war, whose new expression are heartbreaking images of children killed in Gaza. The Massacre of Innocents in the Bible refers to the Jewish King Herod’s orders to slaughter all newborn male children in Bethlehem when he learns from the Magi, the wise men from ‘the East’, that one of the