When Dead Children Have No Names: Israel’s Terrifying Descent into Numbness

“Mohammed Malaka, two years old. Seraj Abdel-Al, eight years old. Sara al-Eid, nine years old. Saher Abu Namous, four years old. Ahmed Mahdi, 15 years old”. For 90 excruciating seconds, the woman’s voice – mimicking the detached tone of Israeli radio newscasters – read names of children killed in Gaza during the last three weeks. “This is only a partial list,” she stressed over and over again.

That was an ad submitted on July 23 by human rights organization B’Tselem to the Israeli Broadcasting Authority, which barred it from airing on the grounds that it was “politically controversial.”

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