in response to Democracy Now, September 20: U.N. Panel Accuses Israel of Unprecedented Violations of Children’s Rights in War on Palestine
A U.N. committee on Thursday accused Israel of engaging in unprecedented violations of the Convention on the Rights of the Child over the past 11 months.
Ann Skelton, South African jurist and Chair of UN Committee on the Rights of the Child:
More children have died in this war than men or women. That is massive. And I think when we think about it and we know that under international humanitarian law, that Israel admits it is bound by, killing of civilian targets on this scale is unacceptable in international humanitarian law and international human rights law, as well. And children are always civilians.
Below are my poems, selected entries of Against the Drowning Noise of Other Words, a writing project about the Israel-Hamas War, for your reflection:
between blood of birth
and blood of death
a new life
on the hospital floor ...
a Gazan mother's last look
almost, with eyes closed
to this shrapnel-filled world ...
a Gazan newborn
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a settler aims his gun | a child throws his rock
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aid
out of reach air ops
dr
and a dead child’s stare
a mural
on the separation wall
of the West Bank:
in midair a girl grasps
a bunch of rainbow balloons
a cacophony
of sirens, shouting and screams ...
a girl curls up
next to the wheels of a stretcher
that holds her bloodied siblings
hazy twilight ...
rain washing a mother's blood
into her children's blood
calm between fireballs
a child, somewhere, in Gaza
looks up to heaven
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