"It is extremely hard to put into words the unprecedented hell these past two years have brought, but perhaps the single word that best captures their indescribable essence is this: disappearance. It feels as if everything has vanished. Not only the tens of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza erased without graves, without records, as if they had never existed so many other things have been hollowed out: basic conceptions of morality, decency, compassion, humanity, hope, future."
"A war whose declared aims were the return of hostages and the dismantling of Hamas has, under the cover of a vague promise of total victory, turned into full-scale genocide. Israeli society has embraced it terrified and enthralled at once by a taboo finally permitted to be broken, and by the possibility of openly dreaming about the total disappearance of Palestinians."
A WhatsApp message from an acquaintance in Gaza requested checking on his hospitalised mother in East Jerusalem; the sender then stopped replying and was later revealed killed, with his sister responding. The past two years have been defined by disappearance, with tens of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza erased without graves or records. Everyday moral and social frameworks have been hollowed out, including notions of decency, compassion, and hope. A war proclaimed to recover hostages and dismantle Hamas has shifted toward systematic annihilation, including starvation, and has been met with societal acceptance of Palestinian disappearance.
Read at www.theguardian.com
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