Gaza: the overwhelming chronicle of Régine Dubois on Belgian radio-television

ByMuhammad

Régine Dubois’s overwhelming chronicle on RTBF – which you will probably never hear in the French media – resonates like a cry. A cry carried by names, those of the children of Gaza killed for twenty-two months.

“You can sip an aperitif, laugh with friends, offer an ice cream to your children … There is no reason to feel guilty for having a good life,” she said. “But the list is lightened, still. Rawaa Qasim al-Astal, 5 years old. Sham Abu Ajwa, 7 years old. Nasser Al Ghazali, 4 years old. Reem Badwan, 3 years old… ”Next Tuesday, Place de la Monnaie in Brussels, artists will read the names of 16,500 children killed in Gaza out loud. “Pronouncing their name,” says Régine Dubois, “is already a way of saying that we refuse to forget them. »»

A tribute that echoes that of Belgian journalists, who recently read the names of their colleagues killed in this war. Through these voices, these are not only figures, but torn lives, brutally interrupted. The chronicle also recalls the abysmal fracture between the banality of our daily newspapers and the horror that is played in Gaza. “You can read, go to the movies, dance to the festival … But the list is still coming back. “This contrast, Régine Dubois just describes it: that of a world that continues on its way while children die, invisible behind semantic debates on” genocide “or” famine “.

By giving to hear these names, the journalist breaks with the abstraction of quantified assessments. It replaces humans at the heart of a genocide that many prefer to keep at a distance. This gesture, simple and strong, reaffirms what the silence of the great French editors erases: the moral responsibility to testify, to name, to recall that each figure corresponds to a unique life.

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Muhammad

Muhammad is a visionary thinker and passionate writer who has been contributing to Understanding Islam for several years.