When Two Lives Matter More Than Seventy – A Night of Massacres in Gaza

When Two Lives Matter More Than Seventy

On the same night that the world’s media was awash with breaking news about the tragic killing of two foreign diplomats in Washington D.C. by an American citizen—a horrific incident that drew immediate outrage, blanket media coverage, and solemn condemnations from every major capital—something else happened.

In Gaza, 70 Palestinians were killed.

Seventy human beings. Mothers, fathers, babies in their mother’s arms, and children huddled in fear inside a school they believed would protect them. The Fahmi al-Jarjawi School in Gaza’s Al-Daraj neighborhood was struck by Israeli warplanes. At least 36 displaced people were massacred, their bodies pulled from under the rubble, their lives extinguished without a moment’s pause.

And yet, as the world grieves two diplomats, it forgets seventy Palestinians in a single night.

Mainstream outlets offered wall-to-wall coverage of the Washington incident: live updates, expert panels, somber editorials. Leaders around the world rushed to condemn the violence and express condolences. Flags were lowered. Statements were issued. Solidarity was declared.

But the same humanity was not extended to the children buried beneath the ruins of a Gaza school, to the toddlers crushed in the rubble of the Abd Rabo family home, or to the eight civilians vaporized in their apartment on Al-Thawra Street. Their lives—precious, fragile, and brutally cut short—passed largely unnoticed by those same global voices.

This is more than media bias. It is a grotesque double standard. A deliberate, institutionalized silence that renders Palestinian lives invisible until their deaths serve someone else's narrative. It is the normalization of state terror, so long as it comes dressed in the language of "self-defense" and wrapped in political immunity.

Massacres and Attacks in Gaza – 26 May 2025

Source: Palestinian Information Center (PIC)

Total Reported Deaths: At least 70 Palestinians killed

1. Fahmi Al-Jarjawi School Massacre – Al-Daraj Neighborhood, Gaza City

Description: Israeli airstrike targeted a school sheltering displaced families.
Casualties: At least 36 killed, dozens injured.

2. Abd Rabo Family Massacre – Jabalia

Description: Israeli warplanes bombed the Abd Rabo family home.
Casualties: At least 20 killed, mostly children.

3. Sharab Family Attack – Murtaja Area, Khan Yunis

Description: Israeli airstrike on a civilian home.
Casualties: 7 killed.

4. Al-Thawra Street Attack – Gaza City

Description: A residential apartment was hit.
Casualties: 8 civilians killed.

5. Al-Maghazi Refugee Camp – Central Gaza

Description: An airstrike hit a tent inside a kindergarten.
Casualties: 1 killed, several injured.

A Word from Germany

Even German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, often cautious in his statements on Israel due to historical context, described the school massacre as a “humanitarian tragedy and a political catastrophe.” He added:

"The military operation has crossed all limits, and frankly, I no longer understand its purpose...
When international humanitarian law is violated, we must speak out—and I have done this more clearly in recent days."

Conclusion: The Cost of Indifference

The moral failure lies not just in the bombs that fall, but in the silence that follows.

To grieve only the deaths that are politically convenient is to desecrate the value of life itself.
If we cannot mourn the seventy lives taken in Gaza alongside the two in Washington, then the world must ask itself: Whose humanity matters—and why?

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