Children who should be growing up free and safe are instead trapped in a nightmare - in the rubbles - both of which they did not create.
For the second year, the world scrolls through their phones watching reels of dismembered and dead children wrapped in white shrouds in the Gaza-Israel war. The muezzin바카라s call echoes through the ruins, a wail, as if searching to see if anyone was alive.
Some watch with outrage, others with resignation. The question remains: how many lives can be taken in the name of self-defence?
Children who should be growing up free and safe are instead trapped in a nightmare - in the rubbles - both of which they did not create.
Slowly, the war has become an uncomfortable reality, ceasefires come and go, but the war refuses to be resolved.
The International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression is a reminder. Of the harrowing images of children scrambling over one another for a morsel - and even that is not the worst. Of Palestinian Ambassador to the UN breaking down at Security Council sessions. "How can anyone tolerate this horror?" Riyad Mansour bewailed.
The worst is when children are killed: needless to say, innocent children, and with only the faintest idea of what war even means.
Gaza, a tiny strip of land hemmed in by the Mediterranean Sea and a relentless military force, remains trapped - bombed, starved and cut off from aid. The price is paid by those who continue to bury their dead as their homeland shrinks.
Sanctions are imposed. Speeches are given. But children still die. As many as 50,000 children have reportedly been killed or injured since October 2023, as per a report released on 27 May by UNICEF. All that is left behind is remnants of lives - their shoes, their books, their questions.
In Outlook Magazine바카라s 11 January 2024 issue, 바카라We Bear Witness바카라, we reached out to ordinary people who have been posting about their daily lives on social media from Gaza and refugee camps.
One of these was Salma and her father. On the 44th day of the Palestinian Holocaust, Salma바카라s father asked her, 바카라Should we leave our country to Zionists? Should we go to a safe country that바카라s not ours?바카라
바카라I want to stay in Palestine, Baba,바카라 she said.
바카라What about the bombing?바카라
바카라We can stay. We have the resistance.바카라
An Israeli politician Moshe Feiglin declared just last month, "Every child, every baby in Gaza is an enemy. The enemy is not Hamas, nor is it the military wing of Hamas. We need to conquer Gaza and colonise it and not leave a single Gazan child there. There is no other victory."
Every word of the statement is appalling 바카라 it threatens sovereignty, glorifies colonization. Above all, it dehumanizes children.
In the face of unprecedented violence, will malnourished children - enduring both war and famine, attacked day and night - choose to fight or flee as bombs land just meters away?
Ghia Haddad 바카라The Olive Tree바카라: Poem In Honour Of Palestinian Children And Hope, wrote on pictures in the sky, pockets of air in barbed wire, and the borders on this earth that are drawn and redrawn by pre-colonials, colonials, and post-colonials.
바카라Our Earth will always grow Palestinian trees, Palestinian children, and Palestinian hope.바카라
A Gaza doctor, Chris Hook, spoke to us of the horrors inside collapsing hospitals.
바카라We had to step over the bodies of dead and dying children to save the ones with a chance.바카라
This is all in the name of self defence.
In another Outlook Magazine바카라s 11 December 2023 issue, 바카라trapped바카라, Brahma Prakash mentioned 바카라Resistance Of Lullaby바카라.
Maternal lullabies shared between mothers, grandmothers and children, the sound of lullaby which is deep as it endures on the landscape; it refuses to die even in death
바카라If Palestine is the body, Gaza is the eyes바카라the sparkling eyes of the children.바카라
It could be folly to hope against hope. As protestors turn Paris바카라 fountains red in defiance of the 바카라self-defence바카라, we hope for Motasem Dalloul to fill in the blank page that was carried in Outlook Magazine바카라s 11 January 2025 issue 바카라War and Peace바카라.
바카라I lost my wife, two sons, sister, brother and 43 nieces and nephews, in addition to 13 cousins.
Today morning, I lost my elderly uncle Akram and four of his siblings in the Israeli bombing of his house, where 20 family members were wounded..바카라
For now, all we have is this testimony.