This poignant piece explores the devastating impact of the recent conflict on Gaza's children, emphasizing the immense human cost and the urgent need for support and remembrance. It highlights the harrowing experiences of countless children, robbed of their innocence and futures, and calls for a collective recognition of their suffering.
There is no way to rationalise the horrors inflicted on Gaza’s innocent children. Now is the time to mourn them fully, now mostly reduced to rubble – and to their dead who still lie beneath. It is only now that we will start to get a fuller picture of the true toll of this war – only now that any kind of grieving or mourning can begin, a process that has been physically and emotionally denied to the Palestinians throughout the past 15 months.
The horror is not just that they died. But how they died. In maximum terror. Many in their own homes, on shaking earth, among the cacophony and screeches of bombs, then either pulverised or smothered, to be pulled out dusted grey in complexion, or in pieces to be. Others died in maximum pain, as lack of anaesthetic and medical supplies meant that some succumbed to injury without relief.
Do so, and try to get your head around the scale of what was allowed to happen, not for morbid indulgence, but because in the justification for what has been done to Gaza’s children hides the most extreme form of dehumanisation from which all Palestinians suffer. None is more innocent than a child, their death the most unassailable proof of the injustice of this war; how it was conducted, accepted and supported.
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