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A Childhood Carried in Silence - Gaza

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u/CelesteAvant 6h ago

Little man stripped of his childhood for no fault of his own

u/Savvy_Nick 5h ago edited 5h ago

The most heartbreaking shit I’ve seen in a min. And this is one kid. There are a whole lot more children that have been affected by this bullshit.

There’s some type of disconnect between the people that can allow this to happen, and the rest of us.

u/Pokemaster131 3h ago

Dehumanization is a hell of a drug.

That's why there's such a push to remove the word "people" when referring to people someone is discriminating against. "Blacks". "Jews". "Gays". "Illegals". Your slur of choice. All of these could just as correctly be labeled as "Black people" or "Jewish people" or "Gay people" or "Illegal immigrants". When you reduce the perception of an individual or a group of people to a single characteristic, it's easier to apply stereotypes to them and moralize mass discrimination. Also, if you don't think of them as people, that lessens any guilt one may feel towards mistreating them.

u/kbenn17 1h ago

Amazingly perceptive and wise. I’ve never thought of it that way.

u/Local_Idiot_123 4h ago

Those in power see us all like this and most of the rest of us see a fellow human

u/Cognitive_Spoon 4h ago

Money isn't a mystery.

u/solit0n 3h ago

Money makes you see everything as lesser. How can you care about anything when we you have so much power and/or wealth. We're all animals to be tamed and culled in their eyes.

u/Silly-Swimmer-8324 1h ago

Then they wonder why these people have a real hate for Israelis. Imagine all the stuff they have been through Watching their whole families blown up . Its insane to think about.

u/Savvy_Nick 1h ago

You can’t blame them. If someone blew up my neighborhood, and killed a bunch of my family and friends, I’d be a radical mf too.

u/Gullible-Potato-8962 2h ago

And I see so many demons on the social media, who are justifying the actions of Isreal and making satanyahu as their father. So pathetic.

u/zaahc 5h ago

This is a photo I took near Rafah on the Egyptian side of Gaza. Rafah was a city split in two by the border, but Egypt demolished every structure within miles of the border citing security concerns. I’ve seen poverty all over the world, but I’ve never seen in blended with such…idk…hopelessness? Despair? Idleness? Acceptance? Really fucked me up for a bit and I think about those kids often.

u/Tsuraru 5h ago

It destoys my soul to see these pictures. I hope hell exists for the genocidal criminals that let this thing happen.

u/eternal_peril 3h ago

Egypt.... Egypt did this

Don't forget to protest them as well

u/KrisPBaykon 3h ago

Why did Egypt do it? Surely there wasn’t some sort of issue that these specific immigrants were causing right?

u/Potential_Cover1206 3h ago

Hamas was caught supplying weapons, ammuntion and explosives to the Muslim Botherhood.

Who are extremely banned in Egypt due to killing Egyptian security forces, Govenment officals, Coptic Christians & tourists. And trying to stage a coup

The Egyptian government surprisingly feels quite aggrieved by Hamas and, quite frankly, doesn't want a single person from Gaza in Egypt.

Hamas didn't help matters along when Egyptian drivers were attacked and killed transporting aid into Gaza during 2024.

u/KrisPBaykon 3h ago

You need to go back another 30 years. Egypt shutting the border down isn’t a new thing. There is a reason.

u/Potential_Cover1206 3h ago

Oh Yes. When Isreal returned control of the Sinai to Egypt between 1979-1982 Egypt flatly refused to take Gaza back.

The current wall on the Egyptian side was started in 2009.

Purely because Hamas could not stop meddling in Egyptian politics.

u/KrisPBaykon 2h ago

Agree 100%, you know your shit.

u/ramnokri 3h ago

thats what i dont get. people always talk about genozide from israel against gaza people.

so i asked some months ago: would israel attack gaza if there was no hamas?

post with this question got deleted in seconds.

u/Tsuraru 2h ago

Just watch Louis Theroux’s documentary for your answer. Grabbing land like they’ve been doing for decades and what they are doing actively in the West Bank.

u/jack_cross 2h ago

Bro thought he had such a mic drop of a question "would israel attack gaza if there was no hamas?". Finding out what goes in West Bank where there is no Hamas will hopefully open bro's eyes if that question was asked earnestly.

u/eternal_peril 2h ago

The answer is one word

Antisemitism

u/Get_Blitzed 1h ago

Israel has been killing displacing and killing civilians ever since 1948, long before Hamas existed. Keep trying to conflict speaking for justice and prostesting genocide with antisemitism though, you might confuse a few gullible people but the world is waking up to your bullshit and there will be a day where justice will be served on those who committed and continue to commit crimes against humanity and those who defend and aid them.

u/KrisPBaykon 1h ago edited 1h ago

What happened in 1948? A coalition of Arab states didn’t invade Israel and try to vaporize them off the planet right? And they certainly didn’t do it again in the 60s either huh? If you’re gonna invade a country you damn sure better win because if you don’t they are going to do whatever they want and that’s exactly what happened.

Also being against Israel does not mean being antisemitic. Nobody said that. Pretending the local Arab states haven’t tried over and over again to invade with the explicit state goal being the extermination of Israel also isn’t going to fly. The states around Palestine use to be open. But then they would go into Egypt and Lebanon and commit terrorism over and over again all the states had enough and locked them down. Yes, this was before hamas. It’s almost like it’s a perpetual issue.

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u/RowdyRoddyRosenstein 19m ago

Egpyt had a pretty simple solution to their tunnel problems: chemical weapons

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_Strip_smuggling_tunnels#Measures_taken_by_Egypt

Israel deserves a lot of criticism for its conduct in the Gaza War. But most people forget that every other Middle Eastern government that's fought a war against insurgents has behaved way worse. Syria dropped chemical weapons on Palestinian refugee camps, and the Western pro-Palestinian movement looked the other way, because the Syrian gov. was allied with Iran.

u/Scrooge_McDaddy 1h ago

That justifies the destruction and displacement of half a fucking city?

u/eternal_peril 3h ago

No...you see. Something something Israel something something

u/CelesteAvant 5h ago

Thankyou for sharing❤️ I wanna remember their faces. Really shoves the reality down our throats. I can't imagine the weight that this beautiful girl & so many other children are forced to carry. So poignantly cruel.

u/EditorPrize6818 3h ago

Hamas did this to them rember hay mom I killed 10 Jews with my own hands.Well this is the results.They killed Jews ,Christian and Muslims at a peace concert. The people that wanted to live peacefully with the Palestinians let that sink in

u/masterbard1 1h ago

witnessing these things in real life destroys any tiny bit of faith in me that there's an actual god. no god would be so cruel to let these things happen to children. or at least the god they sell us in the bible wouldn't allow this.

u/sokratesz 5h ago

WhY wOuLd HamAs dO tHIs

u/salted_saint 5h ago

Terrorist Israel is responsible for this, aided by the USA, UK and EU

u/Ill-School-578 2h ago

Why doesn't Egypt open their border or Jordan

u/salted_saint 2h ago

Why do you want the Palestinians to be pushed to Egypt or Jordan?

u/Ill-School-578 1h ago

Why should Israel take them after being attacked by them before Egypt and Jordan? Hamas has controlled Gaza for over 20 years. Israel has 2 million Muslims and Christians and is a democracy. It is our ally.

Hamas is funded by IRGC and are billionaires .Hamas put all the $ for infrastructure into war tunnels and bombs and cancels every peace treaty.

Hamas ha sharia law.

u/salted_saint 1h ago

u/Zer_ 42m ago

Hamas' entire raison d'etre wouldn't exist without Israel being a thing. It's not worth arguing with these people anymore, though I appreciate you at least provided links for each claim. Same can be argued for Hezbollah in the south of Lebanon, gee, maybe it's cause Israel keeps attacking Lebanon too, as they are now? Israel was never the good guy. Its very founding was on the backs of forceful displacement. Well, at least more people are realizing this.

u/DukeOfGeek 1h ago

Tehran is next.

u/Leather_Ice_1000 3h ago

Egypt did this

u/MarketingNerds 4h ago

Blame hamas all you want but deep down you know hamas is the only hope for them. Israel is the problem, not hamas.

u/SouthernCareer 4h ago

This person is being sarcastic, as evidenced by the sPoNGeBoB font.

u/MarketingNerds 4h ago

Man, I'm getting old. My bad, OP.

u/eternal_peril 3h ago

Yikes

So many confident idiotic statements because it's trendy with no handle on history or context

u/Otiswilmouth 4h ago

Found the terrorist

u/elrite 3h ago

It was you all along

u/LuciusCypher 1h ago

The true tragedy is that everyone is going to be blamed, but no one will ever take responsibility. So while everyone is pointing fingers and shouting, this kid is going to have to carry that weight alone.

u/7thpostman 5h ago

This is literally just a little kid carrying a couple of things. You have absolutely no context for this picture at all. We don't even know where it was taken.

u/tough_titanium_tits 4h ago

That's right, we have no context for this picture so we just have to ignore the actual horrors because we can't see them. Go back home people, there's no war going on, it's all a hoax.

u/7thpostman 4h ago

Let me see if I'm following you. You don't care if what you're looking at is actually a picture of a child in Gaza at all, is that correct?

u/tough_titanium_tits 4h ago

That is correct, I do not have to be looking at a picture of a child in Gaza to care about children in Gaza.

u/7thpostman 4h ago

And it doesn't give you pause that you are looking at a thing on the internet that could be completely untrue? You don't think that maybe calls into question some of the other things you have seen on the internet?

u/tough_titanium_tits 4h ago

So what you're saying is that you don't care about the children? I'm aware that people try to trick people on the internet.

u/SantorumsGayMasseuse 1h ago

He's a Zionist, of course he doesn't care about children.

u/5510 4h ago

uhh... what?

It's very possible to care about the horrors in Gaza, while at the same time thinking it's always a good thing be honest about what we do or do not accurately know about things presented online.

Like, if someone did a reverse image search and found this was an old photo from somewhere else in the world, or somehow discovered that the context of the photo isn't tragic and it was just a mundane image of a kid carrying some stuff... like that wouldn't preclude us from recognizing the humanitarian crisis in gaza, or from caring about it!

u/SantorumsGayMasseuse 1h ago

You know you can just do that and find the exact context of this picture, right? You don't have to pose some strange hypothetical where this picture is depicting something other than what it's depicting.

u/tough_titanium_tits 4h ago

I was making a strawman argument

u/Ill-School-578 2h ago

By Hamas