DO CIVILIANS STILL EXIST?

Resumen

“I’m so scared. Please come. Please call someone to come and take me.”1
These are some of the last words of Hind Rajab, 6 years old, on the phone to the Red
Crescent on January 29th, from the car hit by a tank in which her relatives have already
died. Her body was found on February 9th. Two paramedics who were sent to rescue
her were killed in the ambulance.
Four months before, there was the ‘Al-Aqsa Flood,’ which resulted in 1,200 deaths,
including many civilians and 33 children, hundreds of prisoners and, among other
things, “conflict-related sexual violence […], including rape and gang-rape in at least
three locations” (UN, 2024). Since then, it has been months of horror. In Gaza, there
have been dozen of thousands deaths, two-thirds of whom are women and children, with
dozens certified as having died from starvation. Medical personnel, journalists, intellectuals
have been affected. The vast majority of homes, hospitals, schools, universities,
mosques, and churches have been destroyed or affected. Particularly shocking events
include newborns without incubators, surgeries without anesthesia, the ‘flour massacre’
on February 29, and the hundreds of deaths during food distribution in the following
days, and the torture of doctors.

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