In Gaza, life is not measured in days, but by breaths that are extracted from the rubble, and with tears that dry before you find someone to wipe it. There, they live under the sky that rains fire, the land that narrows with its pain, and in the midst of the suffocating siege, Gaza lacks the simplest elements of life.
Children there do not know the meaning of childhood, their schools are bombed, their games turn into ashes, and their dreams are shortened in the survival of the death that besieged them at every moment, and the houses that were shelter for women, children, patients, orphans and the elderly have turned into collective graves, and hospitals, which are supposed to be a haven for recovery, lacking the equipment, and the wounded and the patients without medicine.
Gaza today is not just a political issue, but a moral test for the whole world. It is a mirror that reflects the erosion of human values, and reveals the falsehood of slogans raised in international forums. When the journalist, carrying his camera, and the doctor, he helps the wounded, and the child is having fun in the annihilation of his house, humanity has lost part of its soul, and the world in front of all of this lives the contradictions of positions .. Silence, data and supporting marches no longer express a position that faces all these human violations.
Duplication of standards, collusion with silence, and justification for killing, all requires asking a question: Is justice possible? Can the global conscience wake up? The people of Gaza live under a land, sea and air siege, but, despite everything, the people of Gaza remain steadfast. They cultivate hope in a land bombed, and sing for life in the time of death. They only ask to leave the right to life, to be allowed to dream, and to live as others live.
Because the International Youth Day is a close occasion, it must be reminded that the situation of youth in Gaza embodies one of the most complex and painful forms of suffering, as the age of young people is not measured by the number of years, but rather the number of crises that they went through, and the number of dreams that were forced to bury before they were born. They are the generation that was born under the bombing, and grew up under the siege, to suffer from the loss of security, home, work and the opportunity to build their future.
Gaza today reminds us that security is not a luxury, but rather a necessity, and that humanity is not an option, but rather a duty. Security and safety are not a privilege, but a right for every human being, whatever his nationality, religion, or geographical location. And when this right becomes negotiating or ignoring, the world reproduces injustice with indifference, is the global conscience wakes up before the last features of life from that earth?
