I sat at my screen, watching the news about Gaza. I had a single request: to see what its children are playing today. I did not abandon those who had perished under the fangs of the beast or those who have carried their burdens far away. These are always in my heart. I watched news about games that help children to have courage and dignity. I have written to you before about young girls from Gaza playing the game \u201cThe Funeral of the Martyr\u201d! Children play, they practice playing with each other, wherever they are, in homes, in shelters, and in destroyed yards. The child captures your attention, and entices you to follow him in his silence, words and actions. My screen led (took) me to playgrounds that were pining for children whom they knew who have died or whose toys were amputated by Israel!, and it allowed me to listen to some of them aspiring to \u201cplay freely, pray in the Al-Aqsa mosque, and get rid of the occupation\u201d. I arose from before my screen imploring God to accomplish to the children of Gaza, one day soon, what they are waiting for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I sat at my screen, watching the news about Gaza. I had a single request: to see what its children are playing today. I did not abandon those who had perished under the fangs of the beast or those who have carried their burdens far away. These are always in my heart. I watched news ...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[343],"tags":[361,1533,1818,1792,1736,447,1302],"class_list":["post-9185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections","tag-church","tag-gaza-children","tag-humanitarian-crisis","tag-middle-east-conflict","tag-orthodox-christian-prayer","tag-orthodox-church","tag-social-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}