FLASH
Shkruar nga Diplomatico | Pamfleti.net
"We no longer have the strength to pray. Please, don't ask us to have hope anymore..."
"There is something more terrible than the famine in Gaza. It is the killing of hope by Israel, through its games with the ceasefire."
This is how Shoug Mukhaimar, an intellectual from Gaza, begins her essay, speaking not only in the words of a survivor, but with the pain of an entire people who have seen destruction in its most refined forms. She speaks not only of the hunger that has gripped hundreds of thousands in Gaza, but of a darker dimension: the systematic destruction of any hope that a civilian might have for peace, for survival, for a return to normal life. According to her, the games of ceasefires, declared, suspended, twisted in every negotiation; are no longer diplomacy, but a psychological form of collective torture.
Mukhaimar notes that every time there is talk of a “humanitarian pause” or “opportunity for calm,” civilians rush to find food, water, medicine, or simply a safer place to breathe. And every time this illusory window opens, many of those who believe it are killed, in aid lines, in displacement tents, on escape routes.
Instead of bringing security, the ceasefire has become a psychological trap that pushes people to crawl out of survival holes, only to be hit again. Therefore, she says, this is no longer simply a military conflict; it is a war to kill human sensitivity, to dissolve any emotional connection between man and his future.
It testifies to the feeling of deep despair that is replacing normal reactions: no one cries anymore, no one hopes anymore, no one asks anymore. When aid is delayed, people do not get angry, because they do not expect anything. When a relative is killed, no one cries out, because even their voice has no power anymore. This is a people that is not simply dying of hunger, it is disappearing from within. And this, for Mukhaimar, is worse than hunger: it is the killing of hope as a war strategy.
In the end, she does not call for more aid, nor for more speeches at the UN. She addresses the human conscience with a shocking statement: "We no longer have the strength to pray. Please, do not ask us to have hope anymore." A word that knocks you down deeper than any UN report, heavier than any UNICEF statistic. / Pamphlet
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