The doctor Alaa al-Najjar, pediatrician at Nasser Hospital in Khan YunisIn Gaza, she receives the bodies of her nine children: Yahya, Rakan, Raslan, Jubran, Eve, Revan, Sayden, Luqman, and Sidra. Killed by Israeli bombs. It's impossible to fathom what goes through the mind and heart of Dr. Alaa al-Najjar. The excessive horror only translates into silence.
"Israel, Israel!" I first heard this word repeated. It was probably in a sermon reading a biblical passage. This was how the prophets, spokesmen for Yahweh, expressed their wrath and, occasionally, their love. I spent my childhood listening to fragments of Israel's history, and my adolescence traumatized by the great crime against the Jews. I also discovered later that the Jews' boundless sacrifice had given humanity a new dignity. It wasn't a gratuitous sacrifice, provoked by the worst in us, which had brought out the best. Not only Jews, but all human beings emerged from Auschwitz with dignity. We humans were proud to be Jewish. "Israel, Israel!" Nine corpses of children in front of a mother who is also ours. With its horror, it is squandering the dignity of Auschwitz, of which we were so proud.
