the "cost of war" seem endless and suffocating

15,000 in Sydney protest Mideast attacks - Yahoo!7 News

About 15,000 people turned Sydney's George Street into a human highway as they protested at Israeli attacks on Lebanon and Palestine.

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Standing in front of a boy lying in a hospital bed in Tyre, Lebanon, the "conflict in the Middle East" and the "cost of war" seem endless and suffocating. The boy's pain cannot possibly be imagined as he shakes uncontrollably in and out of shock.