‘Gaza Patti’
Last year, while answering one of the million questions that I would ask my father, he had said, ‘Let’s continue after you have learned more about the Gaza Strip’. In the last few days, I have tried really hard to remember the context and have failed. Was the discussion about the Israel-Gaza conflict in 2019 or about the ‘deal of the century ’? Was it part of one of the sessions on the Holocaust or something about geography? Or was it a discussion about religious conflicts in India that led us to the Gaza Strip? I don’t know, and I shall never know now.
When you lose a dear one, all you are left with are memories, and you keep them close. For many in war-struck nations, these last memories are tainted by horror, fear, and hatred. What have children born in these countries done to deserve it? In the quest to earn more land, more power, and more technology, we have chosen to forget what love, trust, and kindness mean. More than 60 Palestinian children died before the truce(3 days old now)came into effect, but unfortunately, this might not be the last one. This was one of many. The documentary on Netflix, ‘Born in Gaza’, shows a young boy who aspires to join the resistance to bring justice to his cousins. With no food, no shelter, no water and no education, should he be vilified? While we keep arguing about these balance sheets of rights and wrongs of over a century, only humanity has failed in these wars.