«Hor seen dogs and kittens driving cars and bloodthirsty dictators dancing the samba together, I saw things that you humans…” said the replicant of Blade Runnerbut now thanks to artificial intelligence that creates increasingly incredible videos we are no longer surprised by anything but above all we no longer believe in anything.
By asking ourselves “will it be true or will it be false?” we have lost all faith in the images. I recently saw an exhibition dedicated to the photographer Robert Capa who immortalized the conflicts of the twentieth century with his camera: powerful shots that tell the story with an unmistakable truth. But today, when journalists cannot be present in many war scenarios, we are all prey to arrogant and brazen “alternative truths” at the hands of those who invade countries and exterminate populations and send us videos of bombings accompanied by the rhythm of the Macarena.
This is why testimonies like that of Loris De Filippi, a humanitarian worker who saw hell with his own eyes, are necessary.. Her book on her experience as a nurse manager for Unicef in the Gaza Strip is indispensable and valuable. And again we ask for forgiveness: a testimony from Gaza (Mondadori) is a heartfelt request from those who spent their heart and soul but were left with the frustration of not having been able to stem the horror: «… I just wanted to ask for forgiveness: for not having been fast enough, for not having had enough stretchers. I gave everything in Gaza, much more than in other missions, but it was never enough.”
Serena Dandini (photo by Gianmarco Chieregato).
Gaza has disappeared from the media, there are new wars and new exterminations in the spotlight and, after the farce of a just peace trumpeted by propaganda, the only consolation is that the bombings are no longer blanket but only sporadic, but the agony continues. People are dying of hunger and from a total lack of care, abandoned in a desert of rubble without water and with intermittent aid.
“And again we ask for forgiveness: a testimony from Gaza” by Loris De Filippi (Mondadori)
Four out of five people live in a state of malnutrition and there is a worrying number of premature births. «We found ourselves placing two, sometimes three babies in the same incubator, designed for just one». An unprecedented humanitarian crisis now totally ignored.
What happened to the disarmament of Hamas and the withdrawal of the Israeli army? People like De Filippi, those who really work for peace, don’t give up and continue to mend not only the wounds of the body but also those of the soul and urge us to remain human and not look the other way.
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