"At five or six this morning, shells hit our neighbours while we were all asleep. They are just 300m away from us. Eighteen people killed from two families. And many, many people now injured. "
Harder to breathe.
As I grasp the enormity of the Beit Hanoun atrocities. As I realised what happened as we were watching.
Again.
And again.
And again.
Names started to jump in head. Qana. Jenin.
Flashes of light and darkness, snaps of sound..
Images of dead bodies, pictures of destroyed houses, the sound of crying children, the heavy breath of those trying to carry their wounded and dead loved ones to the nearest hospital, already overcrowded.
The drops of blood on the white paving making a trail to the emergency room. Or to the morgue.
And again.
And again.
Names started to jump in head. Qana. Jenin.
Flashes of light and darkness, snaps of sound..
Images of dead bodies, pictures of destroyed houses, the sound of crying children, the heavy breath of those trying to carry their wounded and dead loved ones to the nearest hospital, already overcrowded.
The drops of blood on the white paving making a trail to the emergency room. Or to the morgue.
The sound of rolling tanks outside. The tip of the helmet of an Israeli soldier, peeking out of his tank to take a look and have a breath of fresh air.
The air smells like sulfur from the shelling, and of dust from the walls that fell into pieces, often on the head of their inhabitants, always on their lives.
Nausea.
Counting our dead.
Nausea.
Counting our dead.
18? 20? 40? 70?
75 people this week. This is like all the MPAID 2 class.
I want to vomit.
Vertigo.
I need a sip of water.
I punched the wall. My hand hurts.
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I was just on www.aljazeera.net. There was a poll: Do you think that peace between the arabs and israel is still possible?
I hesitated. Half a minute. I could feel my heartbeat in the tip of my finger as i was going to click, as if my choice would determine my future opinion.
I somehow managed to click 'yes'.
the results of the poll were a 9% for yes, 91% for no.
Bravo, Israel. I mean, after welcoming a racist and violent party to your government's upper circles, a massacre was just what was needed to pave the road to peace.
Does the word even exist anymore in your language? I doubt it. Bravo.
"Yesterday they killed my aunt. She lives in eastern Jabaliya camp [near Beit Hanoun]. She was cleaning inside her home when a shell hit the room she was in. She died instantly."
"My son is two years old. He was so scared.."
(Quotes in bold from the BBC's 'Eyewitness: Gaza Bloodshed')
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