Hind Rajab's mom, Wesam, made this brilliant speech on Saturday:
Ladies & gentlemen,
I'll begin with no introductions.
On January 29, 2024, my daughter Hind Rajab was trapped inside a car, under direct fire.
Hind was a five-year-old child.
At that age, children don't think about politics, & don't know the meaning of war.
All they know is fear… & the hope that someone will come to save them.
Hind didn't die suddenly.
Hind waited.
She waited for help,
For her cries to have meaning.
She said:
"I'm scared…come get me."
This isn't a literary phrase.
This is the last thing a child said,
who knew she might not survive.
She said a sentence that tore my heart apart:
"Mom, they're lying. Stay with me!"
At that moment, I realized the betrayal.
An ambulance was sent to her. It didn't arrive. It was bombed.
This means one thing:
Saving a life wasn't allowed.
Today, 2 years later,
I'm not standing here to tell you a sad story.
I am here to speak about responsibility.
I will pose a weighty question:
What is the value of a human life when it is Palestinian?
Because what happened to my daughter Hind,
Had it happened anywhere else, would have shaken the world.
But it was in Gaza.
And that is why time was allowed to pass,
& the crime to be forgotten.
I ask you to imagine, even for a few seconds,
The magnitude of pain that mothers in Gaza carry when they lose their children.
Imagine the bitterness of the pain,
When you cannot save your child,
Or even reach them,
Or know what their final moments were like.
This pain lives with mothers
every day,
& with every breath.
What happened to Hind is not just a personal story.
It reveals how a child can be left to die, before the eyes of the world, without accountability.
You live in countries that believe in the rule of law,
that teach human rights,
& sign agreements to protect children.
But Hind was not protected.
Nor were the paramedics.
Nor was the truth protected.
I don't blame the people of the world,
but I do hold silence responsible.
The silence that makes the crime possible,
& makes its repetition easy.
Your presence here today
means that you have chosen not to be silent.
And that is important.
But what is more important, is what happens after this event.
Will Hind remain just a name at an event?
Or will she become a turning point?
I am not asking for the impossible.
I am asking for something very simple:
That the life of a Palestinian child be protected… as if it were your own child's life.
If the law cannot save a child, then it is a law that needs to be held accountable.
And if the world only acts when the victim resembles its own children, then the world needs a new conscience.
Hind is no longer here.
But her story is a trust.
And a trust is not preserved with words,
But with actions!
America is terrified of one thing. Not Russia. Not China. Not Iran.
It is terrified that one day its own people will understand that the greatest threat to their lives was never some foreign enemy, but the bipartisan machine that bombs, loots, and lies in their name..
Work in progress.
IRAN is doing it and Houtis/Hezbollah/Iraqi resistance are helping.
Not the Saudis, not Pakistan, not UAE, not Bahrein, not Jordan, not Egypt.
Slowly the Pedo-Epstein coalition is being kicked out from the region.
سائحة إسرائيلية في إسبانيا في موقف صعب!
عندم اكتشف الإسبان جنسيتها قالوا لها: "فلسطين حرة"!
ردت عليهم بالشتائم، فقالوا لها: "نازي .. نازي"..
فأشارت بإشارة سيئة باصبعها لأنا عجزت عن مواجهة الجميع!
Sizden bir ricam olabilir mi?!
Filistin hakkında konuşmayı bırakmayın lütfen...
Algoritmayı bozmak için nokta bırakın.
Destek için takip etmeyi unutmayın. 💔🇵🇸
🚨 BREAKING:
Belgian Prime Minister: More than 15,000 people in Gaza need prosthetics due to limb loss. 10,000 of these victims are children... Where is human dignity in all of this?
🇮🇱Netanyahu: "Striking Iran is like removing cancer. Ignore it and you die."
🇮🇷Araghchi: "We knew you planned to attack us during Pakistan ceasefire talks.
We came anyway. We’re Iranians. We’re not afraid to die for Iran. Cowards attack from behind. We came for peace. Now the world sees who the cancer is." 🔥
That was real courage. Mad respect 🫡
🚨 BREAKING:
A foreign woman posted this video and wrote:
“My husband takes 4 to 5 business days to choose grocery products and make sure they are not Israeli or American products.”
We are still alive in Gaza… 🥹🇵🇸
Despite everything, we are still trying to hold on.
If you see this photo, please don’t scroll past in silence.
Write anything — even a single dot means so much to us and reminds us that we are not alone. 🥹💔🙏
My family consists of 9 people, and they all depend on me. I am the one responsible for providing for my family, but unfortunately, my campaign has not received any donations.
Please, my friends, help me. We are going through extremely difficult circumstances, and there is no food in our home. Any donation, no matter how small, could make a real difference for my family🙏💔
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What exactly has Iran done that is so unforgivable?
Did it invade continents?
Colonize half the earth?
Drop atomic bombs on civilians?
Build military bases around the globe?
Topple the governments?
Starve nations with sanctions?
NO.
It's US who did this all!