I left my children playing in the tent
I hugged them as if it felt like the last
hug. I left to cook them something
to eat.
I came back panicking as I heard the
airstrikes. I found my six children
that couldn't fit in the tent. They
burned and became ash. I carried the
six in my arms as if they were a handful
of sand. I continued hugging and
kissing them.
My six children world, they became
the size of a handful of sand.
Testimony from the Rafah massacre
"Send this picture to Israel and the world," he said.
US Serviceman Aaron Bushnell set fire to himself outside the Israeli embassy on monday Frebruary 26. On the way there he said:
"I will no longer be complicit in genocide. I'm about to engage in an extreme act of protest but, compared to what people have been experiencing in Palestine at the hands of their colonizers, it's not extreme at all. This is what our ruling class has decided will be normal."
He died in hospital from his injuries.
South Africa at the International Court of Justice, Jan 11 2024
"I don't search for houses that remain intact, on the contrary I search for houses that were destroyed with innocent civilians inside them such as this house where more than ten bodies were pulled from under the rubbles."
"Silence in the face of injustice is complicity."
If I must die,
you must live
to tell my story
to sell my things
to buy a piece of cloth
nd some strings,
(make it white with a long tail)
so that a child, somewhere in Gaza
while looking heaven in the eye
awaiting his dad who left in a blaze-
and bid no one farewell
not even to his flesh
not even to himself-
sees the kite, my kite you made, flying up above
and thinks for a moment an angel is there
bringing back love
If I must die let it bring hope
let it be a tale
Refaat al-Ar'eer, killed in an Israeli
airstrike on Dec. 6th in Gaza