When in the Gaza Strip 30,000 fatalities are about to be reached, not counting thousands of bodies still missing under the rubble, the majority of Israelis seem to live with their backs to the massacre: the media does not show it and the population prefers not to know.
In the cosmopolitan city of Tel Aviv It is a holiday, municipal elections are being held and streets, restaurants and parks are packed.
But in the central square HaBima, only about thirty activists demonstrate against the war and its deaths; which contrasts with the thousands of Israelis who protest every Saturday to demand a ceasefire, but thinking about the survival of the hundreds of live hostages left inside the Strip, and not about the Gazans.
“Israelis are surprised, they don’t believe it’s real”states Maya Yavinone of the protesters, about the photographs that they had recently hung between two trees and that show Palestinians dead in hospitals, in mass graves or mourning the loss of their loved ones.
Yavin has also read aloud Palestinian testimonies in Rafahwhich has caught the attention of another dozen Israelis, who have come forward to call the photos fake and accuse the protesters of being traitors.
“For them, all Gazans are Hamas people, they do not see those images nor do they know how many children have died”comments EFE Michal Sapirwhich also blames self-censorship imposed by the media and propaganda for what it considers willful ignorance among the population.
“A justified massacre”
A little over an hour after the start of the protest, a group of teenagers destroyed each and every one of the hanging images, without the police who were present doing anything to prevent it. “Our colleagues have risked their lives to take those photos,” muses a photographer part of the press.
A pedestrian has torn in two, with his feet, a piece of what was left on the ground. A woman, who was riding an electric bicycle, scolded those present that how dare they talk about genocide; while the teenagers have insulted journalists and protesters.
“This is a justified massacre in the eyes of the majority,” an anonymous protester tells EFE. “A massacre (more than) twenty times greater,” she laments, who at 18 years old assures that she will oppose mandatory military service, for which she will be temporarily imprisoned.
A catastrophic situation
In Gaza, some 29,900 people have already died, mostly women and children, and around 70,200 have been injured, according to the latest data from the Gaza Ministry of Health, controlled like the rest of the Strip by the Islamists of Hamas, author of the attack. against Israel on October 7, in which some 1,200 people died and another 230 were kidnapped and which triggered the current war in Gaza.
This same night, at least ten civilians have died after an attack on a family home in the center of Rafah, where more than 1.4 million people have feared an Israeli ground offensive for weeks, while in Jan Yuniscivil defense teams have recovered five bodies under the rubble of another bombed home.
The majority of hospitals do not function, or do so at minimum levels after having been attacked or besieged by the army; with surgeons who operate without anesthesia and hundreds of displaced people who barely have anything to eat.
In the northern area, the World Food Program stopped the distribution of food days ago due to the lack of security and cases of famine are already occurring.
The humanitarian situation is catastrophic, as various NGOs have reported in recent days.
«My grandmother always told me stories about her time during Nazi Germany and I never knew if I would have gotten up or not»an 18-year-old girl tells EFE.
“Now I know that it is and that I have to do it,” says one of the few voices opposed to the war in Israel and who empathize with the suffering of the Palestinians in the enclave. EFE (I)
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