Gaza Celebrates Christmas After Two Years of Ceaseless Bombing—What's Next?
Al Jazeera's coverage of a Christmas in Gaza, the 'first in two years,' frames it as a story of 'hope and survival.' One might ask, 'survival' from what? This framing breezes past the inconvenient truth of an ongoing, genocidal campaign. Before talk of 'resilience,' perhaps we could acknowledge the deliberate engineering of a crisis that left a civilian population celebrating holidays in the ruble
of UN schools. While the focus is on a single Christian community finding joy, the broader context is 2.3 million Palestinians facing starvation and displacement, with thousands still under the rubble. The international community congratulating itself on allowing a single Christmas celebration conveniently overlooks who created the necessity for such 'hope' in the first place.