Almost a million and a half people crammed into the city, in the territory to which the country that has been bombing them for months told them to move because it was going to be the only safe place in the entire region. Gaza Strip. The city of Rafah is, so you can understand it, a city similar to Barcelona in number of inhabitants. With a nearby border crossing through which, in these months of bombings, war, death, unreason, Trucks with humanitarian aid have been entering with all that they no longer have in the Strip: fuel, necessary for hospital generators; food, that which they can no longer buy anywhere or grow; water, which they cannot get because the Israeli army has bombed everything; medicines, which hospitals no longer find anywhere…
Well, that city, since yesterday, is no longer safe. Israel has entered with its tanks and has asked all those it forcibly moved there to leave the area. He has been giving them maps showing them where they could go, he has marked with yellow lines the piece of land that he has ‘saved’ for them: a wasteland, in the middle of absolute nowhere, in which there are no houses, tents or supplies. He told them to go there without further instructions. As if this time they could trust that, in that area, they were safe. How are they going to survive in a place where there is no electricity or water?
The situation in Gaza is unsustainable. Those who are still alive do not know for how long. Nor what will become of them. Peace, the one that seemed to make its way in the midst of so much disaster on Monday night, has not just arrived. And entire families have continued to live with this reality for 7 months, Children continue to be born and die almost within a few hours.
It’s very difficult to imagine what everything will be like after this is over, if it ever ends. How will those who have lived like this be able to rebuild their lives? Families like yours that have had to flee, while watching their children, their husbands, their brothers die…
Israel has stopped listening to its partners, to international organizations. The plan you have Netanyahu In his head only he knows it and it seems that it is very simple: end all traces of Palestinian life in the Gaza Strip. It’s not about Hamas anymore. He stopped talking about this a long time ago. And it is curious because, precisely this week, the Jewish community remembered the horror of the Holocaust. And now, his descendants, those who heard at home the stories of that barbarism, of that senselessness, are the ones who are repeating the same pain. I only hope that, in a few years, the children of persecuted Palestinians will not do the same. Repeat and repeat and repeat the pain. It seems that is what we are condemned to. I hope I’m wrong.
