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
Perlawanan tetap berlanjut, kami mengecam dengan keras proyek korup (MBG) masuk ke dalam anggaran pendidikan.
Dan kami pada Senin, 15 Juni 2026. Pukul 13.30 WIB, di Mahkamah Konstitusi.
Negara mana yang presidennya gagal matematika pdhl anak SD pun sulit gagal. Menurut kalian brapa 10+6? 8+2? dan 10+2? Serta Wapresnya diangkat oleh paman n bapaknya. Belum bicara kebijakan2 lainnya. Bs kalian percaya kabinet y isinya Buah2an dan Beruang T? Buat UU pun asal2an.
Israeli lawyer Ben Marmarelli says Palestinian prisoners he represents beg him not to visit because they're raped each time he is due to meet them.
This is a scene from Al Jazeera's shocking new documentary on Israel's systematic use of rape.
Jika dibandingkan waktu demo tahun lalu. Kita semua bisa cek CCTV, sampe ada ojol dilindes kendaraan taktikal pun langsung keliatan dari CCTV. Semua media berlomba2 menayangkan Breaking News Live.
Tahun sekarang? Cuma Kompas TV yang berani menayangkan aksi demo. Sedangkan media lain bungkam, udah dibeli oleh rezim. CCTV pun dimatiin.
Para pendemo dihalangi dan gak sampe ke titik orasi. Rakyat dibungkam bahkan sebelum sempat bicara. Ini bener2 ngeri sih.
Gimana? Udah berasa hawa orbanya?
“Emang kalo Anies ato Ganjar yang menang bakal lebih baik?"
Jangankan Anies ato Ganjar, ini Presiden digantiin sama Korlap Ojek Online juga mantepan doi.
Prabowo paling takut sama siapa?
Bukan 9 naga, pas ketemu di Hambalang katanya ada yg dibentak.
Bukan pengusaha, semua kebijakannya belakangan gak pro pengusaha
Bukan TNI, itu sudah dikuasai. Dan bukan rakyat jelata juga
Dia paling takut mahasiswa karena konon mertuanya lengser karena mahasiswa. Semangat buat yang demo, jangan sampai anarkis dan salah sasaran. Ingat sekali lagi, yg diperjuangkan jelas, yg disasar juga jelas. Jangan sampai salah sasaran karena kena provokasi mereka
yaAllah lindungi kami dan menangkanlah kami rakyat Indonesia 😭🙏
stay safe buat mahasiswa, buruh, pekerja, ojol dan semua warga yang turun aksi demo hari ini, kita harus bawa kemenangan!!
Once seen as the darling of Southeast Asia, government policies under President Prabowo Subianto appear to be slowing Indonesia’s economic rise https://t.co/QDqdy9ovll
@BudiBukanIntel SBY>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Jokowi>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>satu keabadian berikut >>>>Prabowo
Tapi Prabowo jadi presiden krn Jokowi dan SBY kampanye minta orang nyoblos Prabowo
pls insert meme Bung Hatta Wallahi We're Finish