Palestinians warned of a genocide in 2023. Why weren’t we believed?

‘The children pleaded. They had no clean drinking water, no food, no medicine.’ Photograph: Bashar Taleb/AFP/Getty Images

Today I watched those children again, the ones who stood before the cameras at al-Shifa hospital on 7 November 2023. They spoke in English, not their mother tongue, but the language of those who they thought might save them.

“We want to live, we want peace, we want to judge the killers of children,” one boy said. “We want medicine, food and education. We want to live as the other children live.”