A brutal education
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The past month I have seen and heard things from Gaza and the West Bank that I cannot even begin to detail and will definitely never unsee. This is not even remotely an exhaustive list, and will change over time as I add to it or change things as I learn more.
I give you fair warning that this is, at the very least, jarring. So, if you're not of a mind for it, skip past it and move on.
A man kneels on the rubble of his house quaking in tears digging for the bodies of his children.
Ice cream trucks used to store the bodies of dead children because there's nowhere else to put them.
Dead NICU babies left in place after the power was shut off and the doctors had to move.
A screaming boy talking about carrying headless bodies.
A woman dragging her two remaining children in car seats as she's being forced to move south.
People being told to evacuate a hospital then getting shot at as they try to leave.
Broken bodies of children and infants.
An infant found by the side of the road with no living relatives.
White phosphorous burns.
A boy licking his dry lips because there's no water.
A woman clinging to her son's grave stone as the land there is bulldozed to make a park.
Front doors of Palestinian homes and businesses bolted shut because Palestinians are no longer allowed to walk down the streets where those buildings are.
Dead Palestinian bodies being dragged by tanks.
Palestinian people being called vermin, rats, animals.
Palestinian children being told they brought this on themselves.
IOF soldiers playing put a finger down games about their actions and the situation.
A woman getting arrested in the West Bank because she liked a pro-Palestine post on social media.
A deaf girl saying the only way she knows the bombs are coming is when the ground shakes or she sees people running.
Gaza being talked about as a place to build a beautiful new city as if there's no people in it already.
A supposedly Jewish leader quoting the Christian Bible to excuse Israeli presence and actions as ordained.
A besieged people kept in planned starvation, with their food, water, medical care, and electricity limited, dependant on 400 to 500 trucks of humanitarian aid per day.
A woman saying “Yes, I'm a little bit fascist” like she's talking about a coffee order as she talks to a reporter about how Gaza should be razed.
Gazans cannot build wells or cisterns to collect water.
IOF soldiers ripping off a woman's hijab and smashing her face into a wall.
The current Gazans did not elect Hamas. Roughly two thirds of the current population was neither alive nor old enough to vote in 2006.
These are things I have not witnessed myself, but have heard reports about, or haven't yet investigated:
Plan Dalet.
The war on water.
The Ben Gurion Canal.
A boy having a seizure having his head stomped.
Entire family bloodlines wiped out.
Gaza being used as a testing ground for weapons.
Hellfire missiles dropped on human targets.
A little girl was shot while looking out the window of her home.
Cameras trained directly into the homes of Palestinians.
A man carrying parts of his dead childrens' bodies in bags.
Black Jewish women coming to Israel and being sterilised without their knowledge.
The skin bank used for grafts in Israel is mostly Palestinian skin. This is deeply problematic for Muslims in regards to burial.
Reports of dogs eating the bodies of the dead that can't be collected.
A horse farm being bulldozed and the animals killed.
Children imprisoned for throwing rocks and subjected to a military court.
Refugees forced to walk from the north to south of Gaza by foot, no vehicles allowed at all. They were not allowed to stop or turn around or they'd be shot. Forced families to walk separated from each other.
A Palestinian man's body indiscriminately bulldozed by the IOF. Conflicting reports on if he was alive or dead.
An elderly woman described as kind and good by her Muslim neighbours, she was Christian, was shot in the neck by a sniper and left in the street for two days to bleed to death alone.
IDF dug up a mass grave on the grounds of Al Shifa hospital, taking away some of the bodies, and denied burial to new dead.
The remaining medical staff and patients in Al Shifa hospital are being forced to evacuate and walk south. Some of these patients have missing limbs, are being pushed on hospital beds, and the group is being followed by tanks. Only five doctors were allowed to remain behind for the patients that absolutely could not be moved.