*Hordes of hungry people?
A top class medical student whose university and lecturer bombed?
The father searching for food for his wife and children?
The man who has lost his mind?
A boy with a bandaged arm who is now the head of the family?
A father and his two sons? A brother searching for his sister?
Look closer. You’re not looking at them. It’s you, after they took your home, killed your loved ones, bombed your city and left you with nothing but a dusty ruck sack and what is left of your life.
*The United Nations’ World Food Programme (WFP) used the phrase “hordes of hungry people” to describe desperate Palestinians breaking into one of its warehouses in Gaza amid the ongoing genocide. The word has been used to portray human beings as threatening or undeserving of empathy. When applied to people facing an orchestrated famine - especially in the context of siege and mass atrocities - it echoes language long used to justify genocide and ethnic cleansing.
