Just saw a video of a Palestinian man hugging the body bag of his killed brother in a moving ambulance. I can’t unsee the sheer desperation in his tears as others tried to pry him away from his brother, because they were in a military zone. Because Gaza is chopped to pieces and they’ve become prey within their own home. It’s moments like that that serve to remind me the Palestinians going through the thick of this have just as much humanity as the rest of us—that their pain and their suffering might be nothing more than a footnote in some western article, but that the agony they’re enduring could never be encapsulated in words. And yet western media still has the heart (or lack thereof) to downplay it, to mention it in passing, in their endless bid to humanize Palestinians as little as possible. But the footage is out there, and it speaks for itself.
