Western academics now speak of ‘genocide’ with newfound authority. Why weren’t our voices enough?
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oday I watched those children again, the ones who stood before the cameras at al-Shifa hospital on 7 November 2023. They spoke in English, not their mother tongue, but the language of those who they thought might save them.
“We want to live, we want peace, we want to judge the killers of children,” one boy said. “We want medicine, food and education. We want to live as the other children live.”
Even then, the children pleaded. They had no clean drinking water, no food, no medicine.
