A Few Words

War doesn’t just exist in the conflict that we witness—it’s also in the stories of tragedy that people experience. War ends the lives, the plans and the dreams for those who are killed, and destroys the loved ones they leave behind. A child’s ambition to grow up and become an engineer ends with the bullet that turns him into a number; a girl’s wedding plans become a memory to her fiancé, who will grieve for the rest of his life.

In the conflict between Israel and Gaza, casualties are increasing by the day. We hear about the rockets, we see gruesome images of the victims, we watch the number of lost lives creep upwards. News headlines mention numbers, political parties, and the background to the battle, but they miss a vital element: the human face of the conflict.

War is the beginning of the violence that happens when lives end, and victims’ names become a memory that we shall all remember. —Chaker Khazaal, author of the Confessions of a War Child trilogy

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