Do I need to write again here that I'm totally devastated not only by the horrors happening in Gaza and the occupied territories in the West Bank but by how our governments do literally nothing to stop them?
Well, if I need to, then here I say it again.
I grew up through times where I learn German from 10 years old, as part of France and Germany's peace plans to never let wars, chaos and crimes against humanity rip us apart again. I cried over the details of history of the Holocaust and the crimes in Bosnia as a teenager.
At 25, one of my first important freelance commissioned report was to meet Nobel Prize winner for literature and Holocaust survivor Imre Kertesz in Berlin, when I covered the first German commemorations of their own defeat in 1945 took place. I cried reading his books, I cried seeing the film adaptation of his novel 'Fateless'.
The following year, one of my first important one-year-long job was as a researcher and communication person for a Haitian filmmaker who had just directed a film on the genocide against the Tutsis in Rwanda.
Ten years later, after working in the Americas and in Africa, I worked with him again on a project on extermination in general, all over the world, that became a mini-series for HBO titled 'Exterminate All the Brutes', inspired by the writing of Joseph Konrad, Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz, Sven Lindqvist and Michel-Rolph Trouillot, especially his text 'Silencing the Past'.
How many times did we say 'never again'?
Yet, it is happening again, in too many places. And it's haunting me daily.
AS much as I've done my part to cover the situations in Sudan for RFI English and in Gaza for them and for other publications, it's so not enough...
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For those who are still debating on the right words to define the crimes, some details from Democracy Now:
"War on Children": Doctor in Gaza on Massacres,
Starvation and Israel's Plan for Concentration Camps
The official death toll in Gaza has topped 58,000, with Israeli forces continuing to shoot at Palestinians seeking aid and talks over a ceasefire agreement stalled in Doha.
This morning's injured were taken to Nasser Hospital, the largest functioning hospital in Gaza, facing fuel shortages and a widening Israeli offensive in the area.
Democracy Now! spoke with Dr. Tarek Loubani, an emergency room physician who has been volunteering in Nasser Hospital in Gaza since June, live from Gaza.
"Every day seems to be a new exercise in the depths of human depravity in terms of targeting men, boys, women and children, especially in terms of the youngest children," says Loubani. "I think every doctor who operates and works in Palestine will tell you that that's the most jarring, the most terrible part of our job, is just the war on children on every level."
Democracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs on over 1,500 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday.
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