Francesca Albanese

Of course, I respect the Jewish people so much that their pain is inside my mind every day.

And especially because of that, I recognize that their pain is Palestinians' life every day.

Is it that difficult to see the humanity of the other?

It's really horrible.

The Gaza Strip was already one of the highest populated places in the world before October 2023.

Now, Israel has occupied and has leveled to the ground most of the Gaza Strip.

And the population that remains, about 1.8 million people, those who have not been killed, those who have not fled, they are corralled in a piece of land that is in proximity of the sea.

So, for example, last winter, they were living in makeshift tents

which have not resisted the elements.

There were storms that they were flooding.

And now that the weather has improved and the temperature are rising, there is a plague of rodents attacking them.

And there is no humanitarian aid properly entering.

There are civilian trucks, so good for sale, that have entered, but the Yale system has collapsed long ago.

So they are just on a survival mode.

And it's painful to see that intellectual media and many politicians have decided to move on.

It's dehumanizing.

It's dehumanizing because, you know, I'm trained to interview victims of violence.

I'm trained to deal with children who have gone through what the Palestinians have gone through.

And at the same time, you are not supposed to do that on a daily basis for four years.

So clearly it has taken a toll on me.