Haaretz newspaper said that 11,500 children were killed in Gaza, and there were children who witnessed the death of their loved ones, parents who buried their children, people who recovered bodies from fire and rubble, thousands of disabled children and tens of thousands in a state of shock forever.
The Israeli newspaper explained – in a column by its writer Gideon Levy – that the Manhattan Tribune network published the list of names that it learned over the weekend, and they represent half of the 11,500 children who were killed, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip, where a child is killed every 15 minutes, 1% of them. in Gaza.
The newspaper said that thousands of names of children killed by the Israeli army in Gaza during the past four months are flowing one after another like the credits at the end of a long movie, with a sad tone in the background, including 260 names of children who have not and will not celebrate their first birthday or anything else, and no one will know what they were. Their dreams.
Although the writer does not find any explanation, justification, or excuse for this horror, he does not think that the Israeli propaganda machine should try to search for it, as “the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) cannot be responsible for all of this,” and therefore it cannot be The only explanation is the existence of an army and a government in Israel that does not abide by any law or morals.
Banal justifications
There are children who died in their beds – as the writer says – and children who tried to escape for their lives to no avail, and there are 10,000 small bodies lying in mass graves and crowded emergency rooms. All of this is happening not far from Tel Aviv without it being reported in Israel, and without any public discussion. About the violent rampage that Israel allowed itself to wage this time, without anyone thinking about what would come from this mass killing and what Israel might gain from it, and what price it would pay for it.
It takes only 7 minutes to view the list of thousands of dead children, which passes as quickly as their miserable lives, minutes that make one feel suffocated, sad, and extremely ashamed.
The justifications seemed trite and pathetic – as the writer says – “they started it” and “there is no choice” and “what do you want us to do?” “The Israeli army is doing everything in its power to avoid killing innocent people,” but the truth is that Israel does not care. “They will only grow up to become terrorists.”
Meanwhile, Israel is erasing generations in Gaza, and its soldiers are killing children in numbers that rival the most horrific wars, and this is what cannot be forgotten, because how can a people forget those who killed their children in this way? How can people of conscience around the world remain silent about this mass killing of children? The writer wonders.
The writer concluded that it is impossible for people to remain silent, and even Israel, immersed in its grief and concern over the fate of the detainees, cannot ignore what is happening in Gaza, where it takes only 7 minutes to display the list of thousands of dead children, passing at the same speed as their miserable lives, which is Minutes that make one feel suffocated, sad, and extremely ashamed.
