When we say children, a rich country comes to life in our dreams and we move towards the innocence that resides in our inner world. The range of our dreams is getting wider, we run towards games set up in the courtyards of houses, kites reaching towards the sky and hopes clinging to the wings of freedom. There is a child who has not grown up in all of us, who takes shelter here, away from the dirt of the age, and here we reach tranquility. There is no place for the conflicts and violence that take place in the world of adults in the world of children. Life is as simple and easy for them as games built with love… And… Children's hearts are a vessel that carries all the shades of love.
Child therapists state that in order for the individual to lead a healthy life in the future, they should have a safe environment during childhood and be able to reach their needs in a timely manner. A child living in the West can easily access these opportunities, but is this possible for children living in the heart of war? Do you have a chance to provide a safe environment for children at the center of violence? With what means will you be able to protect children who are looking for hope among the ruins of war? Don't you see? Childhood in the Middle East where the innocence, games and freedoms of children were taken away and murdered.
Children living in difficult conditions are resisting with the courage they put in their tiny bodies in order to protect their families. Children whose innocence was stolen and their dignity was broken. They ask why violence is produced and why it is directed against them, then they bow their heads and surrender to despair.
The pharaoh system targets the dreams of children and treats them as adults and punishes them severely. The Convention on the Rights of the Child is an organization that was supposedly created to protect the rights of children. However, the articles of the contract cannot go beyond the borders drawn by the global system, and these organizations only serve the safety of children living in the West, while others are forced to live in the shadow of death-spitting weapons. On the one hand, global actors are killing, on the other hand, they are talking about freedom, equality and democracy as if they are making fun of our minds. While the US president is on the screen and uttering the word peace, thousands of oppressed people and dozens of children are murdered in Palestine. The word peace, which is doomed to the tongues of these people, is heavier than the bullets flying over our heads, and we clenched our fists and sharpened in anger.
Contradictions never cease in the old world and a 10-year-old boy is taken to the police station in Palestine, accompanied by the police, where he is questioned. You may remember that Palestinian Ahmet, who was arrested at the age of 13 and sentenced to solitary confinement last Ramadan, had his trial, and we witnessed the reproachful glances of a child who was taken from the playground and put in a cell.
Palestinian children, who are handcuffed and tried in military courts, are subjected to severe torture and lose their mental and physical health. The only mentality in the world that judges children is the occupying Israel, and unfortunately, we cannot see any resistance or movement, other than simple messages of condemnation, neither from human rights organizations nor from leaders or administrators who cast a spell on them with racist expressions.
The post-pandemic process is evaluated in the domestic and foreign press and the projects to be created in the axis of the new world order are mentioned. But in a process where violence is seen as power, no one talks about virtues and virtues, no one mentions that humanization is an essential need.
We feel and believe that the winner of this war will be the good, the good will win and our children will walk with songs of victory at dawn. However, for this, we must show our rank and be willing to take the responsibility.