Today, I met Dr. lan; a kind and compassionate emergency doctor from Canada who promised months ago that he would do everything he could to come to Gaza and help. My family and I invited him for lunch, and it truly felt like a different kind of day. He felt peace, love, and welcome, and we felt lucky and honored to have him with us.
This misery feels endless
In the emergency rooms of Gaza's hospitals, doctors see strange and atypical medical cases; things that don't even make sense sometimes. But over time, they've become normal, even expected. Everyone is restless, anxious, exhausted, and on top of that, sick without treatment.
On my days off
On my days off, I walk at night along the same street I cross every day, passing by many demolished houses; 'demolished by American tax dollars', surrounded by the same familiar, frustrated faces and voices, 'their lives made miserable by the monsters of war.
How could we ever heal from all this pain?
How could we ever heal from all this pain? What is our ultimate painkiller, and why are we being denied it?
How could we ever heal from all this pain? is feeling a pain so deep that if it were spread across the world, the whole world would weep until the end of time.
Life time of a brutal occupation, and total siege. Two years of genocide, a never-ending hell. What do you mean you're not going to survive it? Don't be silly. Stay strong. Stay safe. Don't worry. Protect yourself. Take care of your health. You are amazing. You've got the truth. You're the best of us. Hold on. Don't lose hope.
Come on world!
Come on, world! Help us, we need you.
Today's shift was exhausting, but it was full of smiles.
Peace for whom?
The world leaders and international news claim that the genocide has ended, that peace has been achieved. But they are lying. There is no such thing as a ceasefire yet.The noisy drones never left. We've witnessed days recently more deadly than many during the genocide. Every few minutes, I still hear shooting and loud explosions in the distance. They make my bed shake; but they no longer make my heart tremble.
What am I?
I’ve come to realize something significant this morning, as I sat quietly in a broken car on my way to my shift: the dehumanization of us has created the ugliest creatures; now ready to dehumanize innocent people for no reason at all. This is worse than hell.
I speak in the name of all Gazan doctors.
The present?
What's the purpose of writing, if it cannot speak the whole truth? And what's the use of speaking the whole truth, when the ending never changes?
Now;now before it's so late
That's their plan; they never believed in peace. They never intended to stop the genocide. The world should be ashamed, bow its head, and bury it in the soil for allowing them to win with such a plan. I no longer wish to be seen. I wish to be helped. I ask for protection, for my family, from this terrorism. Now; now before it's so late.
Call for help
Save what remains of life within us. They say the "war" has ended, but I say the genocide will continue killing people and torturing souls until the very end.
I DIDN'T pray today
I didn't pray today. I forgot to pray.
I was dead; and the war woke me up again.
Our community will never fall
This is my niece, Ciela, today, so beautiful and sweet, and full of life. And with her, in the third video, is her cousin, poor innocent Nedal, who has been waiting for months for an urgent medical evacuation. l am at the hospital, and It's been more than a week since the so-called end of the war, yet we still can't find medications for our sick patients. We still receive people shot in the head; by the IOF.
In one way or another, you are saving us
Winter is the season I love the most, but I couldn't enjoy the rain for three years.
Today was meaningful, and beautiful; a warm day, for more than 240 children.
Walk in the darkness
Walk in the darkness. Close your eyes. Don't open them until you hit something, or something hits you; try it, and see how it feels. That's how I feel, while my eyes are wide open; only thousand times worse. After coincidentally surviving a genocide, I should be living freely now. My family should never have to fear going through another round of genocide again.
What will become of us?
Very low, very disturbing night drones; the echoes of genocide, are my nightmares. This is not a genocide, it's a videogame, and we are not humans, we are shields. What we're feeling is unbearable: the pain, the fatigue, the discomfort, the depression, the anxiety, the despair; every dark emotion, every depth of exhaustion.
My mind is sick of this
Saleh, and so many others, are survivors of genocide; but victims of dehumanization. Israel keeps killing, day after day, still torturing us with darkness and fear. May he be the last martyr. Glory to all martyrs, peace to the survivors, and justice for all.
I’m grateful, and i’m angry
I'm home from my first shift after the ceasefire. I am grateful; yet mortified, and angry.