(We love life if we can find a way to it)

The poem of the late Mahmoud Darwish, the genius of Palestinian poetry, reconnects the entire scene in the Gaza Strip, mixing life and death, and the strange mixture of planting and martyrdom, to confirm that construction is not hindered by death, and rises one layer after another despite the destruction, and this is what our great people in the Gaza Strip are characterized by.

The love of life and education, despite the sinful aggression, yesterday gave birth to the opening of the largest and most massive school inside the shelter camps in the southern Gaza Strip. The children appeared with smiles on their faces, dancing, playing and having fun in a place not far from the sound of shelling and cannons, and the buzzing of planes that killed the dreams and hopes of large families, as happened in Jabalia, Beit Lahia and in the Asmaa School massacre in Al-Shati’ yesterday, where there was a great desire and enthusiasm to welcome the first school day, in more than a year.

One of the teachers gives an explanation to the media, saying: Today the largest field school in the southern Gaza Strip was opened, and greets the children of Gaza who deserve everything beautiful, as the children pass through the morning line, and the camera moves to tents set up inside the shelter camp with school desks, and a clown playing with the children, and the ribbon cutting in the presence of officials and the people, to the rhythm of a video clip that tells about the difficult days and life, but we can appreciate it, and we are a people who change what does not change, then another teacher appears and says: Even in a tent or anywhere, and despite the war, we must continue life, and a tape of a popular Palestinian dabke passes, and its heroes are wearing the keffiyeh of the martyr symbol Abu Ammar, and a student says: I am excited, and another: I love school very much, and a third: I am happy and a child is happy and a clown says: Despite everything, we must teach the sweet children, then the photographer captures a scene of a girl in a wheelchair, and how many of these scenes are due to the occupation’s attacks on the children of Gaza in an attempt to eliminate Their wishes and dreams.

A nurse speaks and says: “Masha’Allah, an abnormal turnout of excited and happy children.” A guide discusses the meanings of steadfastness, challenge and will, as a title for the lives of Palestinians from inside the tents. A guide thanks the Sultanate of Oman for its initiative, and concludes by opening the registration and expressing her pride in the contributors and participants in the opening.

In another spot, life was embodied through the opening of the first phase of the rehabilitation and equipping of Al-Rantisi Children’s Hospital in Gaza City, where there is an urgent need for all the hospitals and health centers that were destroyed by Israel, to provide their medical services to tens of thousands of wounded who need operations and surgical interventions, and shelter, care and attention in hospitals due to the seriousness of their conditions.

Darwish was honest in describing the suffering of the Palestinian people in an interesting and wonderful way. At the beginning of his poem, we sense the emotional human tendency when he says (and we love life), to present the most beautiful description of a people like the rest of the peoples of the earth, who have the right and the power to live and survive, because they love life and do not turn to death and killing as Israel imagines.

This is how the proud Palestinian people rise from under the rubble to rebuild their homeland and land, despite the pain, massacres and smell of death that Israel and its army spread everywhere. This is a message to the entire world that the Palestinian people, their students and all their groups love life and seek it with pride. Is it time to stop this aggression?

Israel responds by deploying a new brigade, the Kfir Brigade, alongside the Givati Brigade and the 401st Brigade, continuing its massacres and killing of a people who love life, depriving them of this right, in an unprecedented crime in the history of humanity.