Swara Bhasker, a Bollywood actress, gave birth to her first child with Fahad Ahmad on September 23 of this year. On Friday, she posted a sorrowful statement with a picture of her baby girl in her arms, lamenting the condition of Gaza’s children in the midst of the continuing Israel-Palestine conflict.
Swara stated that she hopes no child ever finds themselves in a situation like that in Gaza, and she questioned how she would have protected her own child if she had been born in the war-torn territory.
Swara and Fahad called their daughter Raabiyaa, and the actress is frequently seen posting images and videos of the child on her social media accounts.
In a long, wordy note, Swara wrote, “Any new mom would know that one can spend hours staring at one’s newborn with a sense of fulfilment, peace and joy like no other. I am no different. And I’m sure like many mothers around the world that feeling when we look at our baby, is now marred by persistent dreadful thoughts that are hard to ignore..”
She went on to state, “I keep staring at the sleeping peaceful face of my baby girl wondering how I would ever protect her if she were born in #Gaza and praying that she never finds herself in any such situation and then wondering what blessing she is born with and what curse those Gazan children were born under who are being killed everyday under an imprisoned sky?!?”
Swara went on to claim that the attacks on schools and hospitals in Gaza represent what the world has come to.
“The unadulterated evil and moral depravity we are amidst is unfathomable! To bomb children in hospitals, relief shelters, and churches with impunity and a licence granted by major powers in the world signals what dark and unjust times we live in,” she wrote.
“Praying to any God that will listen, protect the children of Gaza from further pain and death, because the world will not protect them,” she concluded.
Earlier, veteran actress Zeenat Aman extended her solidarity with those affected by the Israel-Palestine conflict.
