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George Leone's avatar

This piece makes one thing plain: in Gaza, civilian life itself has been turned into a target. Home, road, beach, café, school — every space that should belong to ordinary people is treated as a kill zone. Survival isn’t a right anymore; it’s a daily act of defiance.

Ahmad Rizik's avatar

💯🙏 that is an absolute truth George, it’s like a death loop

Kate A's avatar

Ahmad, your writing is truly heartbreaking. My deepest wish is for Palestinians' peace and safety and for the rapid demise of this savage illegal squatter entity.

Motaz Ibrahim's avatar

From your lips to God's ears Kate. Not only for the Palestinians sake but for all of humanity

Bruce Maltby's avatar

I am sorry Ahmad for Britain’s role in creating this hell for you.

To see the US’s Techbroligarchy and the huge dehumanised corporations with nearly all the west’s imperial colonial countries in tow which have carried out this smokescreen Zionist agenda against the land of Palestine and you it’s people is despicable.

The artificial state of demonic and demented “Israel”

(impoverished as it is on every decent human metric)

needs to be ended immediately without a twitch of emotion and the Ashkenazi can go back to their homelands diluted and monitored or imprisoned for their crimes leaving behind only those who deeply want to apply to live in peace in Palestine with you.

The peoples of so many countries are behind you, and hate what has been done to you since 1936 we are ashamed that our bought and paid for politicians are so morally lame and complicit.

Your situation should never ever have been made possible. No more words.

Motaz Ibrahim's avatar

Ahmed, I find myself going through your piece trying to put myself in your shoes and repeatedly failing to even imagine what you and the fathers' in Gaza have been and are still going through. You do your best my brother and the rest is in the hands of God, you Gazans know that better than any of us. It is never easy but its the only choice. All of us have a peice of our souls tethered to Gaza. May God watch over your family

Gigi Wood's avatar

I can feel the pain, but more importantly, I feel their resolve, their strength and determination, their resilience and their hope. I feel it because those are the same feelings I experience in my life. No, I am not facing bullets, but surviving is surviving, and it is not living or thriving. Never having the freedom to just enjoy a moment without the heaviness of what comes next being pressed upon you is exhausting, at the least. It is a slow bleeding away of your humanity and sense of worth.

I love the people of Gaza. I love the Palestinians, the Lebonese, and the Iranians.

these people deserve to be left alone, they are not the aggressors. The way the world has become some sick survival of the richest makes me disgusted in the human race. and I mean the people who aren't doing anything to stop the madness. the people committing these atrocities do not even deserve my pity, they are disgusting and horrific and in a perfect world we should be able to gather them up on a slow boat to Antartica on a one way trip. I mean, I know we would be kind enough to have a once a month drop of humanitarian food and basic supplies to live. deliver mail. as that would be the only communication they could have. no phones, no computers, no tech, let them live how they should, primative. shit I would even allow them to have fema trailers to live in. at like 4 people to trailer. but I would force them to build their own infrastructure. we could send them used solar panel systems, with no chips, to create their own power. but that would be it. I like that idea. We could call it something like The Last resort. Or maybe For The Children, yeah. Let's Do This!!!