The world is truly in a real moral dilemma, the likes of which it has never experienced since the history of the World Wars-I & II, and the Sabra and Shatila massacre. Moreover, after the Baptist Hospital crime, it will not be easy in the future to talk about human rights, children’s rights, and combating violence against women.
Children tremble and die in the most horrific ways. What happened will have implications beyond geographical boundaries and time. It will always be condemned by all, because the world which accepts the killing of children, civilians, and women is a world which has lost everything.
The massacre which happened in Gaza to displace the Palestinians is a serious blow to all the efforts made for human rights, childhood, and women. Therefore, the destruction is greater than what we see.
There is a real problem: How will the world look into the eyes of its children? What is the benefit of the International Convention on the Rights of the Child and its protocols? Is it possible to speak with confidence and with your head held high about children’s rights after the scenes of abuse against Palestinian children?
Israel has put the world in a bottleneck and pushed it back. It has written a page darker than any previous dark era in the history of humanity.
The historic moment has come to find final solutions to an issue which has been the source of many crises and a psychological and political tension which is continuously growing.
[Dr. Amal Musa in Asharq Al-Awsat]
Compiled and translated by Faizul Haque