Afrasianet - Zahi Wehbe - Gaza does not need tears of sympathy, but cries of anger that shake the thrones of the oppressors and restore the human conscience.
In the heart of this civilized world, where the sun rises and sets on the holiest land, Gaza stands tall as a living witness to an unhealed wound. It is not just a geographical spot, but a symbol of resistance and determination, but also a full-coloured painting of human suffering. Every passing day, new chapters of a tragedy are written that are no longer a secret to anyone, but are covered with clouds of complicity and global silence, as if the blood of children, women and the elderly is no longer enough to awaken the human conscience.
The Israeli occupation no longer hides its destructive policy; the bombs that fall on Gaza's hospitals are not "military mistakes", but a systematic policy of destroying the infrastructure of life. Schools that used to be a haven for children in the morning are reduced to rubble at night under the feet of the displaced. Refugee camps, which are supposed to be safe under international law, are bombed with violence reminiscent of the harshest chapters of human history. More than 60,000 martyrs, most of them unarmed civilians, including hundreds of journalists who carried a camera as a weapon to detect The truth is, children who only knew the sound of shelling in life.
What is strange about the Gaza scene is not only the ferocity of the occupier, but also the Arab and international silence applied, as if time had stopped at the limits of political interests. States that raise human rights slogans ally themselves in the morning with Gaza's torturers, and compete in hollow diplomatic speeches in the evening. Even the United Nations, which was supposed to be a bulwark for the weak, has become a platform for helplessness, repeating condemnations that do not change the reality of blood.
Crime is not limited to Gaza; in the West Bank, settlement operations and arbitrary arrests continue as part of a policy of ethnic cleansing. In Lebanon and Syria, Israeli aircraft are infiltrating the skies, under flimsy security pretexts, and committing crimes in full view of the whole world and under the watchful eyes of international forces operating here and there, adding new pages of human suffering that the so-called civilized world contributes to exacerbating and continuing. This world talks about the "right" of the aggressor to "self-defense" but ignores the right of peoples to life?
When art raises its voice in this darkness, artistic and literary voices emerge like candles of resistance. Juliette Binoche, at the Cannes Film Festival, did not hesitate to break the silence, reminding the world that Gaza is not a number in news reports, but a people who are slaughtered every day. She is not the only one, as many creators around the world have turned their platforms into a weapon of expose, asserting that art cannot be neutral when humanity is violated.
Gaza teaches us a harsh lesson: that evil needs nothing more than the silence of the good guys to win. But it also reminds us that resistance is not only about weapons, but about word, image and moral attitude. History will not forgive those who closed their eyes today, but it will remember those who stood with life against death. Gaza does not need tears of sympathy, but cries of anger that shake the thrones of the oppressors and restore the human conscience.
The ongoing massacre in Gaza is not perpetrated by the Israeli occupier alone, but is shared by everyone who is silent and deaf to the screams of children, the wailing of mothers and the sound of rockets raining down on the heads of innocent people in tents of displacement from one area to another in search of a safe space.
Silence is a crime, it is the issue of the times, and we have no choice but to be with the innocent blood that flows, and with the hope that is born from the womb of suffering that Palestine will inevitably triumph, no matter how dark the horizon and the tunnel is blocked (closed or blocked).