Belal Khaled

Which one do you want me to click on this one?

They don't want there to be recognition of the humanity of the Palestinians.

This one?

That's why Palestinians always say our existence is resistance, where the occupation's goal is to obviously rid the land of the indigenous population of the Palestinians.

So anyone that exists in spite of that, which requires tremendous bravery, when that shouldn't be the case at all, is basically causing a deep shame on the occupation in general.

So this is actually one of the, like, from our perspective in the Western world, we look at numbers to understand the totality of the cruelty.

But I think this also gets lost in those numbers because there's a lot of back and forth about what the number of total dead is.

And, you know, Israel has only recently actually recognized the Palestinian health ministry's numbers as an official confirmation, which, of course, means that the number

the true death count is most likely infinitely higher than that.

And having said that, the consideration for the wounded is not even brought up in this conversation when this back and forth is happening on whether or not the Palestinian health ministry's numbers are accurate or not.

But there's a deliberate wounding in the way that Israel engages in these sort of strikes or even with sniper fire as well.

Right?

That's like so many of the Palestinian youth.

Is there, this might be too tough of a question to ask, but is there a feeling of almost guilt of survival?

Of course.

This is from back when you were, these are photos that you took, because you left Gaza last year, right?

I mean, it's impossible for me to comprehend what it's like, but you're older than a lot of these kids.

Do you feel like...

their development is going to be dramatically different than yours?

I mean, obviously, there's always been incursions in the past, sieges upon Gaza, bombing campaigns and whatnot.