There are moments in Gaza when suffering becomes so ordinary that people stop asking for solutions.
They begin asking only for the smallest relief. A little less pain.
A child who sleeps through the night.
When I entered the clinic that morning, I noticed a young woman carrying a baby so small that I could not tell whether the child was a newborn or simply made tiny by hardship.
When her turn came, she gently placed the baby on my desk and said:
“I want any cream you have.” Any cream. Not a specific medicine. Not a particular treatment.
Just anything.
She uncovered the baby and showed me the severe rash covering much of the child’s fragile skin.
“I treat the baby with whatever free creams I can find in clinics,” she explained.
“Anything helps.”
As she spoke, I noticed something else. The baby was not wearing a diaper. Only pieces of cloth.
I asked why.
“I can’t afford diapers,” she replied calmly. “I wash these and use them again.”
Then she added that they were living in a tent and that her husband had suffered a serious foot injury and was unable to work.
“I’m not asking for much,” she said.
“I only want a cream.”
But what caught my attention most was not the rash.
It was the malnutrition.
The baby was severely underweight. The kind of malnutrition that is visible before any examination even begins.
So I asked the mother whether she had noticed.
She nodded. “Yes, I know.”
Then she said something I cannot forget: “When the baby gets older, things will get better.”
Not because she truly believed it.
But because hope was cheaper than treatment.
And treatment was something she could no longer afford. That was the moment that broke me.
Not the tent. Not the poverty. Not even the illness.
But the fact that this mother had lowered her expectations so much that she no longer dreamed of proper medical care, diapers, or adequate nutrition.
She came asking for the smallest thing she could imagine. A tube of cream.
Any cream.
Something that might make the baby hurt a little less.
The baby could not have been more than five months old.
Too young to understand war. Too young to understand poverty. Yet already carrying both on that tiny body.
There is something profoundly cruel about a world in which a mother’s greatest hope for her child is no longer a better future.
Only a little less suffering tonight.
#WoundedGaza
سبحان الله
سخر معظم وقته في الدعوه إلى الإسلام ونشر كثير من المحاضرات التي تحث على التمسك بمعالم الدين الإسلامي والبعد عن الطائفية .
نسأل المولى أن يجعل مثواه الفردووس الأعلى 🤲��
#خميس_العدوي_في_ذمة_الله
نشر جندي إسرائيلي صباح هذا اليوم، على حسابه الخاص والمغلق عن العامة على إنستغرام، مقطع فيديو يوثق مطاردة طفلين فلسطينيين باستخدام مسيرة "كواد كابتر" في قطاع غزة.
نجا الطفلان الأعزلان من الهجوم الأول، ولكن المطاردة استمرت ولا نعرف مصيرهما.
الجندي يتبع للواء كفير الإسرائيلي
This is a hard article to read, but I hope you'll do so. I've spent some time reporting on widespread rape and other sexual violence of Palestinian male and female prisoners by Israeli authorities, and the article is now published. The assault victims were warned not to give speak of what they endured -- they were sometimes told they would be killed or raped if they gave interviews -- but they found the courage to do so. One man described being raped three times in a single day in Israeli prison, the third time after he tried to protest. A young woman said the guards would come in at the beginning of each shift and strip her naked and abuse her. Another reported that she was shown photos of herself being raped and warned they would be released unless she cooperated with Israeli intelligence. Even three children who had been detained told me they had been sexually abused. Look, whatever our position on the Middle East, we should be able to agree on being anti-rape. Sexual assaults were horrific when Israeli women were targeted on Oct. 7, and they're equally horrific when Israeli authorities use them against Palestinians day after day after day. We should be able to find common ground in opposing rape. Here's a gift link to the article: https://t.co/aMMHId49OO
يحدثني ابن عمي عن معاناته في الخيام، فيقول لي، والله إن القوارض والحشرات باتت أشد علينا من قصف القنابل والصواريخ، وأنها ما تركت طحيناً ولا طعاماً إلا أفسدته، وأنه لا يهنأ له نوم ولا يأمن على أطفاله منها لا في ليل ولا نهار !!
وقد أقسم لي أنه قتل أمس أكثر من 18 جرذاً في ساعة واحدة، كانوا قد اتخذوا من جوار خيمته مستعمرة لهم وهو لا يدري !!
أما البق والبعوض والبراغيث، فإنها تنهش أجساد أطفال غزة، وتملأ جلودهم بالجر��ح والالتهابات، وتجعلهم يبكون طوال الليل من شدة الألم !!
مهما حدثتكم عن معاناة أهل غزة مع القوارض والحشرات، فلن تدر��وا حجم الكارثة، ولن تتخيلوا حجم المعاناة التي يعانيها الناس !!
حتى أن منظمة الصحة العالمية قد أعلنت قبل يومين عن تسجيل 17 ألف إصابة في غزة مرتبطة بالقوارض والطفيليات منذ بداية العام !!
فأدركوا غزة قبل فوات الأوان، وقبل أن تنقل هذه الكارثة الوباء والبلاء، وتحصد أرواح الآلاف، اللهم إني بلغت، اللهم فاشهد !!
نشرت هذا المقطع ولكن تم حذفه لسببٍ ما.
أحد أكثر المقاطع قسوة عبر كل التاريخ، عندما تسببت اسرائيل بمجاعة غير مسبوقة في قطاع غزة.. لدرجة أن الآلاف أصبحوا يتعاركون على رغيف خبز
لن يستطيعوا نزع هذا الجريمة التاريخية من عقولنا مهما فعلوا.
النبطية عام 1974 .
بعد مؤتمر صحفي للمتحدث بأسم منظمة التحرير الفلسطينية يعرض أمام الصحفيين ألعاب أطفال مجهزة للانفجار رماها طيران الاحتلال لاستهداف أطفال الجنوب و الأطفال الفلسطينيين المتواجدين بالمخيم والذي تم تدميره لاحقا في نفس العام .
@doctor_rahmeh arrested AGAIN by the Met for the ‘israeli’ jewish lobby. Fifth (5) time for WORDS, for SOCIAL MEDIA posts.
7 officers, cuffed, a van and a car, an overnight hotel stay for the officers and then driven to London under arrest for WORDS and POSTS. All this for one woman who spoke out against jewish supremacy and ‘israel’ during a Genocide inflicted upon Palestinians by them. For speaking out against how jewish supremacy affects Britain and the world. For speaking truth. For having a spine and a soul.
As a reference point - Peter Mendelson was arrested casually without handcuffs and let go without bail for passing on state sensitive information to Epstein. A man in the middle of the Epstein regime, violent to women and children, was arrested less severely than a woman for words. Those serving the Epstein regime are more aggressive to a woman speaking against it than protecting a woman.
At this point what the ‘israel’ jewish lobby are using the Met (and our institutions) for is terrorism against Rahmeh and against us all
Terrorism - the calculated use of violence or threat of violence against civilians or property to induce fear, intending to coerce governments or societies to achieve political, religious, or ideological goals.
Smear campaigns the passed few days and an arrest at her home. The same pattern each time. Manufacturing consent and then enacting their crime.
We should all be extremely angry and very afraid of what is happening to us, our Doctors, our freedoms and our rights. This is not happening in a vacuum.
Israeli Forces Tortured Child in Front of His Father in Gaza
Israeli forces subjected a one-year-old child to abuse and torture to pressure his father into giving confessions in Al-Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza, according to local and family sources.
Osama Abu Nassar, while taking his child to buy supplies a few days ago, he was caught in gunfire near his home and forced by Israeli soldiers to leave his 18-month-old son on the ground and approach the Israeli checkpoint, where he was stripped of his clothes.
According to witnesses, the army then took the child and interrogated the father at the checkpoint. The forces tortured the child in front of his father, including burning his leg with cigarettes, pricking, and inserting a metal nail into his leg, as confirmed by a medical report.
The child, Karim, was released after 10 hours and handed over to his family through the International Red Cross, while the father remains in detention.
📷 Osama Al-Kahlout
BREAKING: Israeli settlers are now attacking the village of Qaryout in the West Bank, setting Palestinian homes and cars on fire and attempting to burn families alive.
They killed 2 Palestinians in the same village two weeks ago.
HORRIFIC night in the West Bank.
Israeli settlers are attacking more than nine Palestinian villages and cities now, including Bethlehem, setting cars and homes on fire and attempting to burn families alive.