So much death. So many who are promoting war. When will our humanity return? When will people crave peace over bombs? Our tax dollars are complicit in genocide, millions of people’s money going to things that would destroy life rather than protect it. When will we wake up? When will our collective consciousness rouse enough to put an end to this insanity?
What is the point of life when there is so much death, so little care for others, so much greed and lust for power? Do those over one million children in Palestine get a moment of peace? Can we in the U.S. even comprehend the terror and despair? Are we so separate, so self-absorbed?
I keep seeing pictures of dead children, children shaking in terror. They are surviving one air strike just to be killed in another. They have been living a life without access to clean water, food, or electricity, and now they spend their final moments on this earth watching their loved ones die around them, blown to pieces, smashed by rubble. Then dying themselves.
Photo by Belal Khaled, photojournalist in Gaza. A father embracing his son who was injured by an Israeli air strike that bombed his family home in Khan Yunis Oct. 19
What is this world we have created? No ones who has ever existed deserves a life like that.
The people of Palestine deserve freedom. The innocent civilians of Israel and Palestine deserve peace. Please call your representatives and demand a ceasefire.
Still of video by Belal Mortaja, a child crying for his mother after being injured by an Israeli air strike in Gaza Oct. 20