AFLAMUNA

Each day, the Palestinian people—martyred since the Nakba, abandoned by the so-called “international community” for decades, and now suffering renewed crimes against humanity in Gaza and the occupied West Bank since October 8, 2023—are further reduced to an abstraction. Horrific acts against the civilian population, graphic images of mutilated, dismembered women and children, seem to stir minimal moral outrage in Western societies. How does this happen? Quite simply, Palestinians are increasingly dehumanized, with their lives no longer perceived as a fundamental universal value. They are cast as an indistinct mass, a faceless crowd on the periphery of humanity. Since September 2024, this dehumanization has tragically extended to the people of Lebanon. (…)