This morning, I opened social media to check the news about Gaza. I had to wait a while and spread the news before I saw the first mention of my home country.
However, the news we receive from Gaza through friends, family and social media is just as dire as it was a year ago. His people continue to cry for help, hoping that the world will hear them.
For three months, Dr Hussam Abu Safia, director of the Kamal Adwan hospital in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza, sent appeals for help to the world, while the Israeli army surrounded the hospital, cutting property, bombing, killing people near the hospital. and harming some of the medical staff and patients inside.
In a movie In an appeal that was sent on December 12, Dr Abu Safia complained: “Now we have no power and we are providing poor services. I believe that there are listening ears. We believe that there is a living conscience that hears our request and supports the way to help people in the hospital so that the Kamal Adwan hospital can continue its work providing support.”
But his cries for help fell on deaf ears. The day after Christmas, an Israeli bomb killed a woman at the hospital gate and five medical workers: Dr Ahmed Samour, a pediatrician; Esraa Abu Zaidah, scientist; Abdul Majid Abu al-Eish and Maher al-Ajrami, physicians; and Fares al-Houdali, an engineer. Shrapnel shattered the skull of nurse Hassan Dabous in the hospital, putting his life at risk.
Yesterday, the Israeli army attacked the hospital and burned it down, evicting 350 patients and robbing Dr Abu Safia and other doctors.
These horrific stories were never mentioned in the international media; there was no action by foreign governments or leading organizations, except for a few Middle Eastern countries and the WHO. Israel has been successful in controlling its brutal violence, destroying Palestinian hospitals, and killing Palestinian patients and medical workers.
The world did nothing when earlier this month, Dr Said Joudeh, the last remaining orthopedic surgeon in northern Gaza, was killed on his way to work at the defunct al-Awda hospital in the Jabalia refugee camp. Dr Joudeh was a retired surgeon who was forced to return to work due to the severe shortage of doctors due to Israeli killings.
A week before he was killed, he learned that his son, Majd, had been killed. Despite his grief, Dr Joudeh continued his work.
Israel wants to eliminate all aspects of civilian life in northern Gaza as part of the evacuation plan. For this reason, it is targeting civilian weapons across the north and hindering its operation. A few hospitals were the remnants of civilian life.
In addition to trying to kill medical workers, the Israeli army is also systematically preventing civil defense teams and ambulances from rescuing people in the north, often beating and killing them when they try to do so.
And it is not only requests from the north that are being ignored.
All of Gaza has been affected by famine as Israel has severely reduced the number of humanitarian and commercial vehicles entering the Gaza Strip. Hunger is everywhere and affects even those who may have the means to buy food but do not have access to it.
My cousin, a UNRWA teacher, recently told me about his visit to his sister, who was sick and fled her home in Deir el-Balah. While he was visiting, he did not sleep. He hadn't eaten bread for 15 days, but it wasn't his hunger to brag about diabetes that kept him from eating. This was the cry of his sister's children who only asked for bread. Desperate to comfort them, my cousin told them a story afterwards until they fell asleep. But he remained awake, suffering from their hunger and his own.
In addition to food, Israel is also restricting the export of essential building materials. They already have four children freeze to death since the beginning of this month.
Between the famine and the winter, Israel is bombing the houses and tents of the refugees and it has not stopped.
On December 7, a close relative, Dr Muhammad al-Nairab, lost his wife and three daughters when the Israeli army hit their home in Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, west of Gaza City. Two of his daughters, Sally and Sahar, were doctors, helping to save lives. They can't anymore.
When my niece, Nour, a mother of two, approached her uncle, Dr Muhammad, to offer her condolences, she found the pain of his death unbearable. I spoke to him shortly after. His voice broke through the frustration as he shouted: “When will the world hear us and see us?” When will this massacre become necessary? Aren't we human?”
On December 11, a family was attacked near Dr Muhammad's house in Sheikh Radwan area. The attack on Israel to be killed Palestinian journalist Iman al-Shanti, along with her husband and three children.
A few days before she was killed, Iman shared with them movie he is thinking about genocide. “Is it possible for this kind of failure to exist? Is the blood of the people of Gaza cheap to you?” He asked the world.
There was no answer. Just as the war crimes against the Palestinians have been reversed, so has the Palestinian death and suffering. This settlement not only ends their suffering but also denies their humanity.
Yet for the Palestinian people, the pain of loss is foreign – it lives on, it sinks into the soul, raw and unrelenting, carried in the voices of those who have lost, inside and outside Gaza. It is a universal pain, a grief that crosses borders and breaks borders, binding the Palestinian people to the slavery of those who are enduring the horrors of murder.
In a December 3 broadcast on television, journalist Dayana al-Mughrabi, who is currently in exile in Egypt, documented the endless grief of the people of Gaza: “Our loved ones don't die once, they die many times after they die. A person died the day they died, then they died again.” The day his watch that I kept on my wrist for many years was broken. He also died when the cup he was drinking from broke. That person also died on the day that reminds us of their actual day of death, and after the burial, when the remains of the coffee were washed out of his last cup, and when I saw someone gather his medicine to remove them .”
Although this repetition of death is happening more than 45,000 times, the world seems to be preparing to leave Gaza. Fifteen months into this destruction, activists and activists around the world are frustrated and tired of the endless destruction in Gaza and its silence and acceptance.
As a Palestinian native and a third generation Palestinian refugee, despite the indelible marks left by life and carnage – marks that time cannot erase – I refuse to lose hope. I remember the words of the Czechoslovak critic Vaclav Havel: “Hope is not the same thing as hope.” It's not about believing that something will work out, it's about being sure that something is smart, no matter how it happens. “
South Africa's case against apartheid at the International Court of Justice and the work of the International Criminal Court are not only important – they are very important in establishing the state of Israel as a group, one of the countries that want to eliminate all people. The world must not forget Gaza. Now, more than ever, her cry must be heard and the call for justice must be answered.
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