Vox Populi

The world has enough for everyone’s need,

but not enough for everyone’s greed.” (Mahatma Gandhi)

“It was only during the Nuremberg Trials that images of the Nazi concentration camps, liberated by the Allies, were brought before the judges. Only then was it possible to see the horror perpetrated by madmen against innocent civilians of all ages. Nuremberg… the first war crimes trial in history. Nuremberg… the will to prove the guilt of and condemn the executioners, to ensure that such evil would never be repeated again.

And yet here we are again, once more… in Gaza, Sudan, Siria and other countries devastated by ongoing wars.

“If, in 2026, declaring solidarity with an attacked people means being labeled a terrorist, I accept the consequences. If, in 2026, refusing war, denouncing its profiteers, and saying ‘not in my name’ is considered a guilty act, I accept the consequences. If, in 2026, asserting that no child should pay for the decisions of the powerful is judged as extremism, then those powerful do not represent me, and I accept the consequences. If, in 2026, freedom of speech, thought, and solidarity is seen as a threat, then I reclaim that freedom, and I accept the consequences. Because in 2026, one can still be a partisan: against war, against the cynicism of power, and against the meanness of those who govern without answering to conscience and to God.”

Our children were not born to arm themselves, even ideologically, nor to witness the violation of the rights of the most vulnerable. And the children of our children should not live in a world built on domination and intolerance.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/nearly-70-gaza-war-dead-women-children-un-rights-office-says-2024-11-08/?utm_source=chatgpt.com

Global Data on Child Victims of War After World War I

1. Grave Violations Against Children (2005–2022)

UNICEF has verified over 315,000 grave violations against children in armed conflict between 2005 and 2022, including:

• more than 120,000 children killed or maimed
• over 105,000 children recruited by armed groups
• more than 32,500 abducted
  (unicef.org)

2. Indirect Mortality in Africa (1995–2015)

A Stanford study estimates that between 1995 and 2015 in Africa:

• 3.1 – 3.5 million newborns (living within 30 km of conflict zones) died due to the indirect impact of war.
• 4.9 – 5.5 million children under five died from war-related causes (food insecurity, collapsed healthcare, preventable diseases).
  (med.stanford.edu, sickkids.ca)

3. Indirect Mortality (2013–2017)

According to Save the Children, in 10 of the worst conflict-affected countries:

• 550,000 newborns died due to indirect effects of war (over 100,000 each year).
• Extending to children under five, the estimated toll rises to 868,000.
  (savethechildren.net)

4. Child Victims in 2017

UNICEF recorded in 2017 alone more than 10,000 children killed or maimed in ongoing conflicts.
(timesofisrael.com, unicef.org)

5. Child Rights Violations in 2023

• Save the Children reports that in 2023 alone there were 31,721 grave violations against children in conflict zones, equal to about 86 per day.
• Among them: around 11,338 children killed or maimed.
• In 2023, 473 million children (19% of the world’s child population) lived in conflict areas — nearly double the figure in the 1990s.
  (savethechildren.net)

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The ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in Gaza

By Luca Cellini

Israel has unanimously approved the plan for the complete ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in Gaza.
Israel plans to militarily conquer 90% of the territory of the Strip and confine the entire population in the remaining 10%, within a very small area near the Egyptian border.
Two million and two hundred thousand people will be forcibly deported, indefinitely, into an area of 45 square kilometers — we’re talking about approximately 50,000 people per square kilometer, one person every 20 square meters, a space of 5 meters by 4.
It is exactly the same thing the Nazis did to the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto. Palestinian people who rebel will be silenced under a barrage of AK-47 gunfire.
There are no longer even UN observers inside the Gaza Strip — they too were driven out with extreme violence. In the area where more than 2 million human beings, mostly children, women, and vulnerable individuals, are expected to be deported, there is absolutely nothing: no drinking water, no sanitation, no electricity, no hospitals, no schools — absolute nothingness.

For these prisoners, after 500 days of bombings and massacres, now awaiting to be ethnically wiped out at the discretion of the Israeli army, only one food package is foreseen, containing just enough calories to survive. The package will only be delivered via facial recognition.
Rations will consist only of dry or preserved food, with nothing fresh. The genocidal murderers will allow only sixty truckloads of goods per day — compared to the six hundred that, before the genocide, were considered the bare minimum by the UN. ……… Various ministers in the Netanyahu government openly speak of the definitive conquest of Gaza. This means that from this so-called “humanitarian zone,” Palestinians will only be able to leave either dead or by forever renouncing their homeland — assuming any country is even willing to take them in, along with the enormous burden of problems that Israel has irreversibly stamped onto the lives of these millions of people.This was the plan for ethnic cleansing and genocide against the Palestinian people from the very beginning.

Who are these people and which social groups do they belong to? Can or do they really want to take care of the interests of the middle class and the most disadvantaged categories?

Inequality: the Oxfam report denounces the unfairdistribution of wealth.

Every day 10 thousand people die because they cannot afford healthcare. And 262 million children do not go to school. The 2019 Oxfam report sheds light on economic and social inequality in Italy and around the world, where the unfair distribution of wealth could be partly resolved if the richest 1% paid 0.5% more in taxes on heritage.

Furthermore, the document also identifies an agenda that governments around the world should promote in the fight against inequality. Starting from the development of essential public services such as health and education, passing through the fight against tax avoidance and arriving at a tax system that asks everyone to contribute to a fairer society according to their possibilities.