Written By Essafa

Written by Essafa

3 December 2023

Guess we’re living in history? Holocaust, Nakba, and now. It’s been countless days we’re witnessing genocide in Gaza, countless martyred from unborn to elders, millions of innocent people have been displaced, even there’s no place to come back to. What else do we–do the government need, especially the US to prove that Gaza is slowly turning into a dead city?

Palestinians are living a life where death is more certain than being alive. How on earth do leaders still act blind? Is it because Palestine; Gaza is a middle eastern country filled with majority muslim? Is it because of 9/11? God knows, we all read the Bin Laden letters that have been kept for years and suddenly taken down because they hold the truth. This isn’t a war against Muslim or even Hamas and everyone knows this. It’s a GENOCIDE, end of discussion. 

Few days ago, there was a truce to exchange hostages. It only lasts for 10 days. 10 days full of life; they get to breathe the fresh air, kids happily play by the beaches, they get to sleep for more that 8 hours without worrying about the bomb strikes, the point is they get to feel alive even if it's limited. Can you even imagine, in the midst of genocide, you’re offered a truce not a ceasefire? The thing is, even truce isn’t promising. They still got killed, maybe not by the bomb but shot to death. Isn’t that obvious? Now, after that 10 days of truce, Israel continued carpet bombing each area, even corner in Gaza, making sure no building stand and most importantly for them is no people left.  

They are trapped in their own land, no place is safe in Gaza. They are slowly losing hope in the world–in us. If we’re tired of voicing the truth, how about them? How about the Palestinians who've been fighting for the past countless years? How about the kids who lost their parents? How about the elders who walk for God knows how many miles to find a safe place? How about the kids who have to carry white flag without knowing what for? How about the mothers who lost their newborn baby? How about the journalist who lost all his family members yet still covering the news? How about the grandfather who lost the soul of his soul? How about the mother who got burned with the baby inside her stomach? How about all the innocent people who are still buried under the rubble? How about them? 

Our voice matters. What we’ve been doing for the past months is working. We won’t stop until Palestine is free from the oppressor. We want an IMMEDIATE CEASEFIRE. We want CEASEFIRE NOW. Please do everything in your power to stop the genocide in Gaza–call your representatives, boycott things that related to genocide funding, voice the truth. We are their voice, we are their hope. Don’t lose hope. From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.