An Israeli soldier published photos of herself cooking in a house in the south of Lebanon
What hurts most about this image is that it makes loss unbearably painful. We're talking about a house where fresh vegetables are still there — still holding the life of its people — but they themselves are the only ones forcibly absent. They are forbidden from returning, while a soldier from the occupation army enters the place, picks the vegetables,cooks, and laughs as if the house has no owners. As if the fifty-five villages banned to the people of the south were not emptied of their people, as if all this destruction weren't enough.
The scene is humiliating because it sums everything up: uprooting people from their land, and then turning their homes and gardens into an open space for the occupiers. This is occupation and a deliberate insult to people's memory, their dignity, and their basic right to return to what they planted with their own hands.