CHRIS ROPER: Speaking art to power
At Glastonbury, musicians sparked an uproar over the Gaza war, and in Türkiye, a satirical magazine did the same
Since Israel launched its military campaign in Gaza in response to the attack on October 7 2023, in which about 1,200 people were killed and 251 taken hostage, at least 56,500 people have been killed in Gaza, according to the Palestinian health ministry. But an independent survey, as reported in Nature magazine on June 27, estimates that 84,000 people died in Gaza between October 2023 and early January 2025 as a result of the Hamas-Israel war, and that more than half those killed were children, women aged between 18 and 64, or men and women over 65.
Unicef paints a terrible picture of the suffering of children in Gaza. The organisation’s regional director for the Middle East and North Africa, Edouard Beigbeder, said: “These children ... are now part of a long, harrowing list of unimaginable horrors: the grave violations against children, the blockade of aid, the starvation, the constant forced displacement and the destruction of hospitals, water systems, schools and ...
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