Surely there are more than one billion people who in the 365 days of 2025 have contemplated the tragedy of the children who suffer the bloodiest wars in much of the world.
Very unique is what happened last year in Gaza, the corner of the eastern Mediterranean where, in the last four years, an extreme situation has arisen. Qualified by many as genocide, seeing in it an obsession with unlimited revenge on tens of thousands of innocent victims, many of them newborn children. The Holy Land, we called it before, is still there, with the places where most of the narrative of the New Testament of the Bible took place. Between Egypt and Palestine at that time, the child God arrived, it is said, to a hidden manger. It was The Messiah, the messenger, with the purpose of redeeming men from punishment for having sinned in Eden, directing his call not only to the shepherds of Bethlehem, but also to the Wise Men of the Far East, and of course to the others who went to see him or who heard the message, precisely, thinking about their children.
A little detached now from the thirteen holidays from Christmas to Three Kings, which with efforts in the richest countries we have managed to overcome consumerism, let the words of this column serve to remember the thousands of children killed by bombs, who sometimes did not even have a minute to appreciate the beauty of a life that was initially given to them, and that was later taken away from them. Without asking them what was wanted of them when they arrived, nor when they were martyred.
In the early days of his trip to the Holy Land, the Messiah lived with many children who at that time died without hardly seeing the light. And taking into account that reference to Herod and the innocent children, someone should explain to us what is happening with the children of Gaza. Will we continue to pay attention to what we are not told…?