I have seen countless videos: destroyed homes, disfigured bodies, distraught mothers. They’ve managed to bring a tear to my eye, but nothing more. I was afraid I was becoming desensitised.
But then I saw this video today, and I broke.
I sobbed, like a child. I rang my mum, crying down the phone to her, because unfortunately unlike thousands of Palestinian children, I have that privilege. I couldn’t explain the heartbreak I felt watching this little boy.
When he held up that photo of him in his little cap and gown, all I could see was my little brother. The way the picture ripped tore my heart.
This little boy is stronger than me. Every single Palestinian is stronger than me. Because, they’ve lost their homes, their loved ones, their land. But, they haven’t lost their faith, their strength.
All I prayer for is for Allah SWT to protect the Palestinians, to watch over them, to guide them in their faith, to let them know that He is always watching over them.
I pray for the day Palestinian children wake up to sound of birds, not bombs 🇵🇸
Struggling to stay alive, the young girl died while holding a piece of candy after the Israeli airstrikes on residential homes, which claimed the lives of over 25 Palestinians in Khan Younis.
Dr. Wael Nasrallah from Gaza City lost all his loved ones within a week to I0F airstrikes. He later adds in another facebook post "and now i wish death would take me too."
I don’t know how any actual people, with actual brain cells and an actual functioning mind look at what is happening in Palestine and still say ‘I stand with israel.’
Like are you fucking dumb or just plain ignorant?
No, like for real, actually someone explain it to me. Explain to me how the fuck israel is the victim. Explain to me that what is happening in Palestine isn’t genocide, and ethnic cleaning, and settler colonialism, and a massacre. Try and persuade me to think that israel isn’t committing war crimes, and that what is happening isn’t a crime against humanity.
I used to be filled with heartbreak at every video I saw about the tragedies in Palestine, but now it fills me with rage.
If you’re staying silent, or if you’re ‘neutral’ you are fucking disgusting because you are siding with the oppressor.
Simply look at a map of Palestine from before 1948 and now and that literally is enough evidence. Never mind factoring the thousands slaughtered and millions displaced.
Never mind looking at the apartheid, where there’s streets in occupied Palestinian territory that Palestinians aren’t even allowed to walk on. Never mind the use of white phosphorus, or the bombing of apartments, and hospitals, and churches. Never mind the murder of THOUSANDS of Palestinian CHILDREN. Never mind the fact that Gaza is the largest open-aired prison in the world.
The map alone is evidence enough. Adding all these atrocities in just goes to show that regardless of what is happening, the West still stand with genocide.
Enough is enough. There needs to be a ceasefire. Aid for 2.2 million people needs to be let in. There needs to be an end to the occupation of Palestine.
There’s no ‘two-state solution’; the only solution is the complete eradication of the settler colony israel (the ‘state’, not the Jews before anyone tries to call me anti-semitic) and for the land to be fully claimed as Palestine once more.
And when that day comes, because it will, the Day of Judgement will be upon us Insha’Allah, and everyone will answer to Allah SWT for their role in the slaughter of Palestinians.
A few weeks ago the UN reported that everyone in Gaza is facing a food crisis -and that 1 in every 4 people in Gaza are starving -a quarter of their population is hundreds of thousands of Palestinian people. EVERYONE is hungry -their medical systems have collapsed and there are imminent outbreaks of diseases. How HUMILIATING and dehumanizing it is to have to fight for basic necessities. Imagine seeing a humanitarian truck -something rare because as we know the IOF has been collectively punishing Palestinian people for months now and has been committing mass genocide under the guide of 'war.' Not letting through resources to prevent people from dying from starvation is beyond depraved. And the fact we will NEVER see this on western/European mass media is just... absolutely infuriating.