If you care about Israel’s targeting & murder of journalists, please read this extraordinary interview in @thenerve_news
by Wael al-Dahdouh who kept reporting on Gaza even as his wife, daughter & two sons were murdered
(link below)
Excuse me, we are from Gaza — where we have been forgotten by the world.
You run toward the future, lighting up your cities, while we dig through the rubble of our destruction, searching for a piece of cloth to cover our worn-out tents.
Can you comprehend that a child here closes their eyes at night not to dream, but to guard their body from the rats in the tents that gnaw at their flesh? What sin did this child commit to be punished with a childhood devoured in this forgotten place?
I stand before my children every day empty-handed, my back and spirit broken. Their eyes search for the simplest human rights: a toy, a notebook, a school desk. And I stand there, crucified by my helplessness, unable even to afford lying to them. I watch them wither, their future crushed before me, and I have nothing but my anguish.
We used to tell ourselves it was a nightmare and that we would wake up — but here, nightmares never end. Every dawn, we open our eyes to find the tent tighter and the pain deeper. We see mothers who have fallen silent because even tears have died within them, and fathers who avoid their children’s gaze out of shame for their helplessness.
This is not life — this is a slow death in a long line of waiting, in full view of a world that neither sees nor hears.
Éric Rohmer filmed cautionary tales against yielding to sexual temptation because: 1. With men, if it isn't mutual, it's violent, and he recognized and abhorred men's proclivity for sexual violence; 2. With everybody, he believed in true love and saw the pursuit of a false one...
I don’t know if anyone will care about what I’m saying, but we are facing a serious disaster in Gaza.
Diseases, rats, and insects are spreading widely inside the tents, while hospitals are receiving large numbers of children every day suffering from skin diseases, painful bites, and serious injuries. I see with my own eyes children whose bodies are covered with these bites, with no treatment available for them. Rats and insects are everywhere due to the rubble, the accumulation of waste, and the lack of any means of control. They reach food supplies and attack children, and the tents have become unlivable, overrun like never before.
In the coming days, dangerous diseases may spread widely, and all doctors are warning of the possibility of a health catastrophe. There are no treatments, no medicines, and no vaccines available here, and hospitals are suffering from a severe shortage of everything, while even the most basic shelter supplies are not allowed into Gaza. Why are we being treated this way?
We are living in only 30% of the area we used to live in before, while the rest is rubble and destroyed buildings. Life here is constant fear, hunger, and pain. Our children cry from fear, and we are unable to protect them, as if we are trapped in an endless nightmare.