“I observe the gap widening between those who want life and those who want death”

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Testimony A year ago, we asked young Israelis and Palestinians to hold the pen. Four young women prisoners of the conflict gave us their views on the war in a text. A year later, two of them agreed to write again for “le Nouvel Obs”. In recent months, their mental health has deteriorated considerably, like an entire generation who will carry the marks of this war for life.

Maïa Livné, 23, is an art student in . Born in Jerusalem, Maïa defines herself as a left-wing activist, a pacifist since the age of 14. In December 2023, she gave us her feelings as a left-wing Israeli and her questions about the war led by her country in Gaza. Today, she writes about the terrible abyss into which her country has plunged.

Blue sky in Paris, the rising sun bathes half of the Pantheon in gold. I'm going to class, the air is fresh. The last mists of early morning evaporate. In Gaza, I check my phone, 27 degrees, full sun. Philippe Lazzarini, UNRWA Commissioner General [Agence de l’ONU pour les réfugiés palestiniens, NDLR] describes the stench of death spreading across the northern strip. On the photos that flood my networks…

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