Alaa Selim Writes… Gaza’s Children: Death in Full View of Humanity
28.08.2025
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Children in Gaza are not dying from stray bullets or random shells, but through a cold, deliberate plan — with premeditation and intent.
They die of hunger while the world’s warehouses overflow with food.
They die of thirst while rivers flow across continents.
They die of sickness while medicine lies untouched on pharmacy shelves.
Innocent children, knowing nothing but purity, have their breath extinguished as they stretch out tiny hands toward their mothers’ chests — only to find no milk, no shelter.
Mothers watch their beloved children fall lifeless before their eyes, helpless, broken, and grieving, their hearts echoing Jacob’s cry of sorrow: “Oh my grief for Joseph!”
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The Call of the Holy Scriptures
The Qur’an declares:
“Whoever kills a soul unless for a soul or for corruption [done] in the land — it is as if he had slain mankind entirely.” [Qur’an 5:32]
The Torah commands: “Do not kill the innocent and righteous, for I will not justify the wicked.” [Exodus 23:7]
The Gospel proclaims: “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of heaven.” [Matthew 19:14]
What higher commandments can there be?
And what greater betrayal than to let children be slaughtered while chanting slogans of “human rights” and “international justice”?
Mothers Weeping in Silence
What wound is deeper than a mother watching her child die in her arms?
What pain is heavier than watching innocence perish while the heart can do nothing but weep?
A poet of the past wrote:
> “A mother’s heart is forever wounded,
when she sees her child in agony.”
And a poet of today laments:
> “A child’s tear asks me: where is heaven?
I drown in silence, cursing this world.”
The Betrayal of Leaders and the Silence of the World
O leaders who boast of humanity from podiums,
With what face do you speak of values and human rights?
With what eyes do you look upon your own children, while Gaza’s children die in deafening silence?
The masks have fallen, the shame is revealed, and the false civilization is exposed.
You are complicit in every life extinguished, in every child buried, in every mother sleeping beside her child’s corpse.
A Cry That Will Never Die
O children of Gaza, your tears will not be wasted.
Your cries will remain a fire in the conscience of the free, even if the armies, councils, and so-called United Nations abandon you.
Your tragedy will be written in history as were the tragedies of Karbala, Andalusia, and Hiroshima.
Humanity will forever remain indebted to your tears and your memory.
Conclusion
How cruel it is for children to die in plain sight of the world, while nothing moves but the echo of silence.
Yet the voices of mothers and the tears of children will forever thunder:
“Where is humanity? Where is conscience? Where are you — the self-proclaimed guardians of mankind?”
السلام نيوز
