The people of Gaza are being engulfed by rivers of blood. And part of our humanity is being swept away with them, write Mediapart's Joseph Confavreux and Carine Fouteau in this op-ed article. There is an urgent need for compassion, public pressure and politics, they say, to halt the deaths of civilians - including many children.
“In“In Gaza and Israel, side with the child over the gun.” This was the headline for an article published on October 11th in which essayist Naomi Klein criticised a section of the Left for being unable to express true compassion for the victims of the civilians and children massacred by Hamas on October 7th, on the basis that the weapons had been in the hands of the oppressed and the colonised.
