2024-10-07
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My name is Mehrab Zenschein and I am based in Tel Aviv, Israel, and I am currently the senior Israel analyst with the International Crisis Group, which is a think tank looking to prevent war and mediate solutions for peace.
As we're speaking, there were rocket sirens at about 11 in the morning.
Sirens have blared across central Israel urging people to run for cover.
The Israeli army says rockets were launched from Hezbollah positions in Lebanon.
And, you know, both my kids were at school at the time.
And it's always more stressful when they're not at home or near me.
But, you know, living in Israel is always something that has with it a certain amount of stress, I guess.
But since October 7th, that's obviously much more visceral and palpable for people.
And the war only seems to be intensifying further, and there seems to be no kind of end and no restraint, and the day to day is very grinding and very full of despair.
And at the same time, there's also the emotional burden that I feel about, you know, what Israel has been doing in my name, what it does in many people's names here.
You know, I've been living through a situation in which I don't really encounter any empathy or awareness as to Palestinian suffering and what we as a society are doing to another people who live amongst us.
Like, if I think about just the feeling that I have when my child has to deal with a rocket siren when I'm not there, and then think about parents who have been losing their children, parents who have no way to protect their children.