Look, yesterday's news – we have it every day – about hunger in Gaza says that a rare neurological disease spreads, especially among children. It causes paralysis and lifelong consequences (for those who survive, of course).
There are many unavoidable tragedies in the world, like this flood that has swallowed entire cities, or accidents or fires. But there are some, like the famine in Gaza, that are preventable. They can be avoided right now. At that instant, someone can order a ceasefire, prepare doses of food and serum, load them onto trucks, open the borders, and distribute them in front of journalists and doctors. It is not tolerable, it is not acceptable for the human race to allow children, who have come into the world without asking for it and are not in the least bit to blame for any territorial, religious, testicular, or all-at-once conflict, to die of hunger. It just can't be done. Living beings—plants, animals, and people—we all die if we don't eat. And that's why, from the moment we're born, we send out signals to be caught and to grow and live in this world for the period allotted to us.
It costs a lot, depending on the situation, to maintain a child's life. There are parents, here in the Vall d'Hebron, who can't sleep watching over their sick children, sweating every step, every day, every tiny hope. And should we admit, then, that it costs very little to make a child's life go down the drain because they're left to die of hunger there?
Enough is enough. I don't want to hear the phrases of one side or the other defending interests, geopolitics, and the edges of the conflict that has been going on for a long time. They're dying of hunger. Dying. I can't afford such indifference, it doesn't work for me. I know that demonstrating is useless. But we must protest, shout, and be outraged for every child who dies of hunger.
