Pep Guardiola’s daughter shares powerful post decrying Gaza war

BEIRUT: A powerful post in which a fashion content creator called Eva has decried the Israeli-Palestine war was reposted by Manchester City coach Pep Guardiola’s daughter and has garnered more than 140,000 views.

Eva put up the post on her Instagram account, “whateveawears,” questioning how many people had to die before “someone urges restraint.” She wrote: “So is this really what we’re going to do now? Just sit back and watch a genocide happen on the telly (TV),” UK publication The Independent reported on Saturday.  

A model and fashion content creator herself, Maria Guardiola shared Eva’s post, which also said: “For the first time, I truly understand how mass atrocities have been able to occur throughout history — again, and again, and again. We never learn.”

The statement, which was shared widely on Instagram and X, further reads: “What does the death count need to be before someone speaks against this madness and urges restraint, not more arms? 10,000? 100,000? A million? More? When have enough Palestinians died?”

Guardiola’s daughter was among thousands who have reposted and reshared Eva’s emotional message on different social media platforms.

In an obvious bid not to incite hatred against Jewish communities, Eva wrote: “I get that lots of us are scared to speak up. I get we’re afraid to say the ‘wrong thing.’ But I won’t sit by in silence and live with the fact that I never spoke up when an atrocity on this scale was committed because of fear. “We can express our complete condemnation for what the Israeli govt are doing, and also assert our unwavering belief in the equal value of Palestinian lives, without inciting hatred against Jewish communities — another persecuted people. Indeed, many Jewish and Israeli