15/05/2026
Father’s Day. Once again, this day carries both a sweet and bitter feeling for me. As a father, I know how much love, joy, and hope a child brings into your life. But with that love also comes fear — the fear of not being able to protect them or give them a safe future.
That’s why I cannot stop thinking about the parents in Gaza. After years of genocide, displacement, and destruction, families are fighting for survival every single day. Children are saying they want to die because they’ve heard there is food in heaven. Not because help doesn’t exist — but because much of it is being blocked from reaching them.
How far must a society fall to cause such suffering, to refuse help itself while also preventing others from helping, while only a few kilometers away hundreds of thousands of children are fighting for survival?
And how far has our politics fallen when those in power remain silent, continue supplying weapons funded by our tax money, and at the same time engage in absurd debates about the watermelon as a symbol?
While writing this, my son saw one of the images and asked me why the children were crying. I couldn’t answer him. How will we explain this to our children one day?
This post is for the children in Gaza — and for every child who deserves the chance to live, play, learn, and grow up without fear.
We know posts like this often receive little attention because they do not fit into Instagram’s perfect world, and their reach is often restricted. But silence is NOT an option for us.
If we truly want a better world, then we must do something for it. The world does not become “better” because we look away — it becomes better when it becomes more just.
P.S. We are donating all proceeds from the Inner Glow lamp to UNICEF to support the children of Gaza.
