by Mazin Qumsiyeh, published by Defend Democracy Press, October 23, 2024
Dear friends and colleagues
The situation in North Gaza is beyond the word catastrophic:horror, massacres, extermination. People are shot on site as they even try to evacuate injured people, medical personnel are targeted, hospitals are targeted. No food or water allowed. Israel simply rejected UN and humanitarian organization access. People are dying by injuries and by thirst. It would be more merciful to drop a nuclear bomb on them. All to clear North Gaza for Zionist nefarious schemes to control its natural resources (e=and control the whole region). In some places they simply rounded people up, forced the women and girls to the south and took men and boys (we remember mass executions like this in 1948 ethnic cleansing). IN other cases they simly sent robot explosives to clear neighborhoods or bombed people (men, women, children) from the air. How could we tell our children and grandchildren that we had a chance to stop this and did not, Please see the below small examples of what is happening and write letters, stop the world to stop a genocide. Speak out, act now urgently. The horror is beyond description.
https://x.com/MosabAbuToha/status/1848365076295623022
Israel kills over 40 in Gaza, unleashes more air raids on Beirut
https://www.instagram.com/
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Israeli forces raid north Gaza schools and march displaced people out at gunpoint
‘Horrifying massacre’: Israeli attack on Beit Lahiya kills at least 73 Palestinians
Here are the scrolling names of some of the over 200,000 massacred in Gaza in one year
https://www.facebook.com/
One of those massacred in north gaza this week is our friend Yosef Saqr Aburabie’ an agricultural engineer who insisted on trying to grow food in the midst of war https://t.me/msdrnews/391645
Shall I dare to ask you to say human and humane in the midst of unspekable horror?
Mazin Qumsiyeh
Sleepless in occupied Bethlehem, Birthplace of Jesus whose message is still relevant, still ignored.
*Featured Image: Body hangs out of a window of a building destroyed in an Israeli attack on Beit Lahiay, Northern Gaza Strip, Palestine, October 29, 2024. AFP / src: Daily Sabah
Mazin Qumsiyeh is a Palestinian living in Bethlehem, scientist, scholar, human being; tireless crusader for peace and justice in Palestine; Museum Director, at Bethlehem University.