'The Children Haunt Me at Night': The Protest That's Forcing Israelis to Face Kids Killed in Gaza

The Israeli media does not document the horrific deaths of children in Gaza, so trauma therapist Adi Ronen Argov has decided to do it herself

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Children who were killed in Gaza. Hala Abu Tuayma, Masa Abd Abu Hawisha, Rawad Suhaib Al-Qarinawi, Sajid Abu Tuayma, Mohammed Suhaib Al-Qarinawi, Siwar al-Gharabli, Kenan Rabee Al-Masri, Zina Bilal Al-Madhoun.

Rasha al-Ar'eer, a young Gazan girl, survived the bombing of her home in June last year. The experience prompted her to write a last will. On a piece of paper she kept in her pocket, she wrote in red ink: "Please do not cry for me, it hurts me to see your tears. Give my clothes to the needy, divide my things up – the boxes of beads, the pocket money, the books, the toys – among my cousins. Please don't yell at my brother, Ahmed. I hope you will respect my wishes." On September 30, the family's house was bombed again, Rasha was killed, and so was Ahmed. She was 10. He was 11. They were buried next to each other.

Mohammed Hamada was born after his mother underwent 15 years of fertility treatments. When he was 3, he was critically wounded in an Israel Defense Forces attack. A video uploaded that day shows his father running through the devastated streets of Jabalya holding Mohammed in his arms, begging him not to die. A few days later, Mohammed died of his wounds. Another clip shows the father weeping inconsolably over his son's body before laying him to rest.

Seven-year-old Taha Behroozi was killed by an Israeli bomb in the city of Tabriz, in Iran, last month; two sisters, Iman and Talia Nasser, from south Lebanon, were also killed in an air force attack. Nastya Buryk, a 7-year-old who originally came from Ukraine, was killed by an Iranian ballistic missile in Bat Yam. She had come to Israel to be treated for leukemia – and was killed along with her mother, grandmother, brother and aunt. Aline Kapshetar, who was 8, and her brother, Eitan, 5, were shot to death on their way home to Dimona by Hamas terrorists on the morning of October 7, 2023.

Only one website in Hebrew commemorates these children together. Called Forcibly Involved, it is devoted to memorializing the child "noncombatants" from all nations who have been killed since October 7. To peruse the site is to plunge into the nightmare we are all living through, but trying to ignore. Thousands of dead boys and girls, Israelis, Lebanese, Iranians – but most of all Palestinians from the Strip.

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Ronen Argov at a recent protest. "We've reached a level of violence and cruelty where making things palatable for those who refuse to know is like supporting someone's addiction. I won't prettify reality." Credit: Tomer Appelbaum

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