I recently saw the video below of a boy in Gaza describing how excruciating his life is, to the point that he wishes for death. I shake my head at how the world (particularly my country, the United States) allows this to continue. These people are beyond the breaking point, and it is a moral failure to allow innocent people to live exist under these conditions, for months on end.

(In case the video is taken down or lost to time, here is the given translation…)

“My only wish is that the Zionists leave us alone, and I get to live out my childhood! And that’s it!! Nothing else!

“I’m tired of everything! Everything! I’m wishing that I could just say ‘O Lord!’ and I die, and then come back to life again! Come to another life!”

I’m wishing that I could just die, I’ll die and be done with all this here! It’s what I want!
Because we’re tired of this! We’re tired! We’re tired! We’re being tortured!

We’re being tortured! By Allah, my uncle, we are being tortured! By Allah, we are being tortured! I haven’t lived my own childhood! We’re just children and we’re being tortured! We’re young (children) and we’re (always) filling (containers with) water (everyday) and I never used to even think about water, or anything else!

I suffer from everything! From everything from water, from everything, from food, from drink, from everything! We go through torture just to get anything! We’re being tortured!”