‘WHY DO WE DESERVE THIS?’
May 28, 2021
4 minutes
COMPILED BY JANE VORSTER
T JUST never seems to end. Explosions, air-raid sirens blaring and people diving for cover, houses reduced to rubble – all of this happens so often in the endless cycle of conflict between Israelis and Palestinians that the world has come to accept it as “normal”.
But a 10-year-old girl shook people around the world out of their apathy with a video that’s gone viral. Standing in front of the ruins of her neighbour’s home in Gaza with tears streaming down her face, Nadine Abdel-Taif showed there’s nothing normal about living in a war zone.
“I can’t do anything,” the Palestinian child said. “You see all
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