This child is not surviving Gaza; he is surviving Zionism and the brutal machinery of Western colonialism. He is enduring a system built on callousness, mass murder, dehumanization, theft, exploitation, and the relentless pursuit of profit for Western corporations.

He is surviving the apocalyptic visions imposed by Judeo-Christian ideologies.

Gaza is not what he must survive—it is his home, his family, his neighborhood, his school. It is the sea, the scents, and the sounds etched into his being since his mother’s womb; it is his history, his identity.

This innocent soul is not surviving “Gaza.” Like countless others across the world, he is surviving one of the most grotesque civilizations humanity has ever known. A civilization whose media—cynical, deceitful, greedy, and heartless—stands as perhaps one of history’s most hateful and cringing inventions.