Khaberni - In every era of tyranny, a new "Pharaoh" appears, the name changes but the idea remains the same: the fear of the infant.
From the one who was placed in a reed basket on the Nile, to the one who is today besieged in Gaza without milk or a safe cradle, the story is repeated with different faces.
The ancient Pharaoh ordered the killing of every newborn male because a prophecy told him that a child would overthrow his throne, and the modern Pharaoh besieges Gaza because one child there might grow up to become a resistance fighter who destroys "their temple of fear".
When the fear of the infant turns into a state policy
Israel does not fear vast armies, but an idea born out of the womb of Gaza.
One child surviving the siege, nourished by a mother who shared with him her last drop of milk, might become a symbol reminding the world that the crime has not been erased yet.
Because the idea is more dangerous than the missile, Israel besieged the milk before it besieged the tunnels, and cut off the oxygen before thinking of a ceasefire.
What is denied to the children of Gaza today is not just food, but the right to exist.
When the crossings are closed, not only do bodies die, but also the memory of hope that was nourished with every suckle from the milk bottle.
The child who frightens kings
In the book of Exodus, Pharaoh trembled when he heard a prophecy saying, "A boy will be born to the Israelites who will destroy your kingdom with his own hands".
Today, Tel Aviv trembles at the same image: a child born in Rafah or Shujaiyya, carrying in his eyes what satellites cannot see… the spirit of justice.
This is why "Israel" besieges milk as it besieges the truth.
It fears a cry in a crib more than a political statement, and fears a mother's tear more than a thousand tanks.
The Western conscience: When donors are silent and children scream
Weapon trucks are transferred to Israeli ports at the speed of light, while a box of baby milk is examined at the border as if it were a bomb.
The moral paradox here is terrifying:
The world that prides itself on human rights signs with its own hand a document starving children, and justifies the siege with phrases of "security" and "fighting terrorism".
What kind of civilization fears a bottle of milk?
And what kind of international law allows starving an infant under the guise of "deterrence"?
The siege as a new colonial tool
In Zionist thought, the siege is not a temporary war measure, but a steadfast doctrine:
"Wear the enemy down until they suffocate from within."
From Deir Yassin to Gaza, the essence of the idea hasn't changed: forcing the Palestinian to choose between starvation and migration.
But they have not yet understood that a mother's milk is stronger than war engines, and that the memory of a mother who lost her infant will write a history that their planes cannot erase.
A mother searches for a bottle... and the world turns away
At Kamal Adwan Hospital or Al-Shifa, nurses tell stories not mentioned in the news:
A mother dissolving hot water with a bit of flour to deceive her son's hunger,
Another singing to her child so he would sleep instead of crying for milk,
And another died trying to breastfeed her baby because her body dried up from thirst.
These are not scenes of war, but scenes of human disgrace.
The world which was once afraid of "the blood of baby Jesus" is silent today on the blood of the children of Gaza.
The stage has changed but the crime remains the same: killing innocence in the name of salvation.
From the fear of Moses to the fear of Muhammad al-Durrah
When Muhammad al-Durrah was killed in his father's arms in 2000, Israel was killing the same image it has feared for thousands of years: the image of the father and son.
The son who might grow up to become a symbol, and the father who carries in his arms the meaning of the first resistance.
And from that moment, every child in Gaza became a "potential threat".
In the eyes of Zionist thought, the Palestinian child is not an innocent being, but a deferred resistance project.
Therefore, books and milk are denied to him because milk builds the body and books build the consciousness, both of which are more dangerous than bullets.
Zionist thought: Engineering fear
The Zionist doctrine is based on the idea of the "demographic threat," meaning the birth of a Palestinian is a strategic threat.
Thus wars are translated into numerical equations:
Every child born in Gaza is a ticking time bomb, and every mother who gives birth to more than three children is a "threat to Israeli security".
This thought does not see the human, but the statistic.
And in that cold equation, milk is erased from the list of "humanitarian needs" to become a "security element".
It is the logic of occupation when fear becomes doctrine, and the child an enemy before he even speaks.
When a child triumphs without speaking
But what next?
Under the rubble, heroes without names are born.
In the arms of a starving mother, a smiling girl sleeps because she does not know that the world has let her down.
And in the scent of burnt milk, God writes an equation that the tyrants do not understand:
That life is stronger than the siege, and that the cry of a child may shake the thrones of tyrants more than their bombs.
The Pharaoh is one... and the mother is one
From the Nile River to the coast of Gaza, the ruler remains the same though the faces have changed.
Pharaoh fears the infant because he knows that what comes from the cradle will knock the crown from his head.
That is why children are killed, and that is why milk is denied.
But just as Moses came out of the water to break the throne, a new child will emerge from beneath the rubble bearing the message of both the earth and the sky.
Those who fear children, in reality, fear the future.
And because Gaza gives birth to the future every day, it will remain targeted by war… but it will also continue to give life.
