UNICEF has selected the above and below as photos of the year. These children, Palestinian and Israeli, have, despite all heartbreaking despair of losing their family, retained their dignity.

At the end of 2024, the most horrible in a series and horrible years, one worse than the previous (the pandemic, Putin’s war in the Ukraine, 10/7, the genocidal war in Gaza, unprecedented weather extremes and violent destruction by floods, cyclones etc.).

So, is there any hope?

The year ends and one might doubt. Is there, actually, what had been called Zeitenwende?

20 December 2024@10:17 am.

Last modified December 20, 2024