Mosab Abu Toha's video captures the horrifying reality of life in Gaza amidst Israeli bombardments, illustrating the extreme devastation and terror faced by its inhabitants. Philosopher Edith Wyschogrod described similar mass tragedies as 'death events' where language fails to convey the enormity of collective suffering. She argued that these experiences place victims in a 'death world,' where the line between life and death is profoundly blurred. The ongoing situation in Gaza exemplifies this concept, revealing a collective trauma as the threat of annihilation looms perpetually over its people.
In her 1985 book, Spirit in Ashes, she called them "death events" and emphasized the necessity for a new language, as existing words fail to capture these horrors.
The act of bombing, exemplified by the obliterated landscape in Mosab Abu Toha's video, shows how those in the Gaza Strip exist in a death world, akin to the living dead.
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