We do not know the Marah face, we do not have a photo that reconnects the girl of twenty years to an individual identity, died on August 16, in Pisa, who arrived from Gaza and found by Italian doctors with a “very complex and compromised clinical picture and with a state of profound organic deterioration”.
Perhaps the absence of a photo will not help us: we tend to add to the numbers, we have a face. If the story of Marah, who died in Italy in 2025, in Italy from a criterion of proximity, but had attracted our attention, at enough, we could perhaps hope that it was not dead in vain, they would be able to benefit from the many children, 11 only in the last few hours, who every day are starving in Gaza. The world could mobilize for the cause of those who remain. Save the Children, just a few days ago, denounced over 100 hunger dead children: “Since the Ministry of Health”, the operators explained, “is able to provide only the data relating to what remains of the health structures of Gaza, we know that these figures are only the tip of the iceberg: who knows how many other young lives have been unused.While these numbers continue to rise, we must not lose sight of the fact that it is not just numbers, but young lives full of potential. Elsewhere, these children could have grown healthy, with a roof above their heads, a family that took care of them, an education and opportunities for the future. But in Gaza, almost two years of war and the blocking of humanitarian aid have condemned children to death, suffering and a devastated future, all this would have been avoidable. For children, conditions such as malnutrition can cause permanent problems as delays in the growth and weakening of the immune system. The effects of malnutrition can extend to generations, with repercussions on the little ones who make learning and development more difficult, creating a cycle of poverty for the entire population “.
Meanwhile, while every day news of people killed by the raids arrives while taking help, the pressure increases in the strip to forcefully dispose of the Palestinians in the concentration areas in the south of the strip while in Tel Aviv thousands of demonstrators are in the square to ask for the end of the war and the return of the hostages. A day to save lives It is the title given to Event organized by the Family Forum, which disputes the decision of the Netanyahu government to expand the offensive to Gaza, instead of reaching an agreement to free the remaining 50 hostages, 20 of which are still deemed alive. With protests and actions they are in 400 locations from all over the country.
While the Israeli government accuses them of wanting to divide and weaken Israel. “These are the same people who have weakened Israel before October 7th and are trying to do it again today,” said Israeli Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir attacking the demonstrators who today ask for the end of the war and the release of the hostages. “This strike strengthens Hamas and delays the return of the kidnapped. Of course, later they will blame the Israeli government. This is what a cynical political line on the shoulders of the kidnapped means,” added the exponent of the ultra -decay mentioned by the Israeli media. The same idea of the transport minister Miri Regev, representative of the Likud, party of Prime Minister Netanyahu: “The war is won.” United, and today we see the same handful of people who has decided to divide and transform solidarity with the hostages into a political campaign, damaging roads and infrastructures ».
Once again the words of Pope Leo who in August, as he does from the first minute, asked, “let’s not resign ourselves to the logic of weapons”.
