Ellise Shafer Madonna addressed the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas at her third Celebration Tour date in London on Tuesday night, asking the audience, “What the fuck is going on in the world?” According to The Guardian, the Queen of Pop took a moment during the concert to make a lengthy statement about the war, calling it “heartbreaking.” “Nobody wants to see what’s happening.
I turn on social media and I want to vomit,” Madonna said, as The Guardian reports. “I see children being kidnapped, pulled off motorcycles; babies being decapitated, children at peace raves being shot and killed.
What the fuck is going on in the world? How can human beings be so cruel to one another? It’s just getting worse. It frightens me.” Paraphrasing James Baldwin, Madonna said that “the children of the world belong to all of us, each and every one of them.
I don’t care where they’re from, what their headdress is, what the color of their skin is, what their religion is – the children belong to us.
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