What can I do?

The situation is unbearable. Every day I see images from Gaza shared on social media and other news outlets. There is a genocide. Mutilated children, lifeless bodies, hunger, death by starvation, cities and towns completely destroyed, terror, sadness, hopelessness, despair… The massacre of the Palestinian people carried out, day after day, by the murderous state of Israel.

There’s almost nothing left in Gaza. Nearly all hospitals have been destroyed, as well as schools and universities. Of all those essential infrastructures, necessary for a society to live a normal life, barely anything remains. The wounded cannot be properly cared for, surgeries are performed without anesthesia, newborns die from lack of food, the population drinks seawater, there’s no food in the markets, and what little is available comes from humanitarian aid—manipulated by the Israeli state mafia at exorbitant prices.

I only hear the silence of the West and the screams of those whose limbs, children, parents, siblings, friends, and dignity have been torn away by bombs.

On social media, most people continue to share their lives free of bombs, blood, death, and hunger, and very few speak out about a clear barbarity that can practically be followed live. We don’t want to see sad things. We don’t want more worries. Yes, we all have our own problems, and wars have always existed. But the gravity of what’s happening is unimaginable, and we are unaware that injustice has also taken root within us.

Hunger no longer moves us, basically because we don’t suffer from it. It doesn’t stir our stomach or our conscience to wonder why, even in 2025, there are still people starving. “That’s just how the world works,” we think. But is this the world we want to live in? The values built over time have now become a lie. The international laws meant to protect human rights are frozen and fail to show up when they’re most needed. In fact, reaching this extreme suggests that the erosion of our most fundamental values began long ago. Now, we have the evidence in front of our screens—and our silence confirms this is a done deal.

We live in a world where political and economic power forms a complex web that has drifted far from the interests of ordinary people. We cannot leave all important decisions in the hands of those who do not protect our most basic interests. If we want change, we all have to take a step forward—without fear.

A lot of harm has been done, many deaths and much suffering caused by the most depraved. And I ask myself: What can I do? Not close my eyes, not forget, learn, understand, and disagree with what I know is unjust. But that’s not enough—I also have to give voice to what I feel because I don’t want to remain silent in the face of the death of human sensitivity.

** Photo: Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. 28th May, 2025