Guardian Weekly

V (formerly Eve Ensler)

ver these last horrific months, Instagram has exploded with catastrophic images and videos of the genocide taking place in Gaza. We have seen formerly incubated babies found abandoned on hospital beds, huge craters where apartment buildings and neighbourhoods once stood, bones emerging from rubble. One particular video haunts me. I watch it on my phone. I watch it again. A dust-covered, anguished father crawls towards his limp, grey, dead 10-month-old baby. He covers him with his body. He holds the baby rocking and rocking him. He slaps the floor with his hand. He cries out over and over. Then the energy changes, suddenly terrifying, suddenly shocking.

You’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.

More from Guardian Weekly

Guardian Weekly1 min readForeign Language Studies
Puzzles
Find the correct definition: PARISON a) offspring of equal status b) fascinator c) syllables of equal stress d) spherical mass of molten glass One short of a crowd (3) Number of letters in the number is the number (4) Entertain view of one number abo
Guardian Weekly5 min readCrime & Violence
‘Suffering Double Punishment’
The 40 sq metre apartment had everything Hamado Dipama was looking for: one bedroom, a bath and a good location in the southern German city of Augsburg. When he called to set up a viewing, however, the landlord kept asking him where he was from. “It
Guardian Weekly5 min readAmerican Government
Spotlight
When student Lauren Brown first heard the commotion, including firecrackers, she assumed the sounds were coming from nearby frat houses. Then, at about four in the morning, she heard helicopters. Later, she awoke to news and footage of a violent atta

Related