Palestine today is our cause as humanity. We have just returned from Open Arms mission 110, our second mission in Gaza to open a humanitarian corridor by sea with the aim of helping with our ship and equipment to combat the use of hunger as a weapon of war against the Palestinian population.
More than 35,000 people have died in what the great powers hesitate to call by its name: genocide. A dystopian laboratory where people’s blood flows while war technologies are tested and perfected, directed by increasingly automated algorithms that allow all human responsibility to be diluted, using technology and trivializing evil.
We are back from Gaza, where uniformed killers are allowed to shoot children; Hospitals and schools are destroyed and humanitarian corridors are sabotaged; where even the terrible rules of war are violated and doctors, teachers and humanitarian personnel are executed; where journalists and the press are persecuted, where witnesses to these mechanisms of annihilation are expelled. We are back, but not our WCK colleagues: Zomi, Issam, Damian, Jacob, Jim, John and James.
They stay there. Now states extend their condolences to the families, but do not show the same rush to stop the shipment of weapons. Yesterday many media outlets showed outrage over these deaths but today there has been a new bombing, before the eyes of the world.
How long are we going to allow more deaths and war crimes in Gaza? What else needs to happen for global society to react? How much more humanity must be lost in this genocide?
