Like a sweaty, panting athlete, exhausted from running on a relay track, the year that has passed hands over its baton, with all the pain it has brought, the distance of hopes, the deepening of disappointments, the successive setbacks, and the closing of horizons, to the coming year, which today begins its first steps on the path of Calvary, without its features being clear, amidst the dense fog that surrounds it, and reduces the horizontal vision to examine its endings and the outcomes of running on its track.

As we bid farewell to the departed year to its final resting place, we do not know what the new year holds for us, while astrologers predict that what has passed and gone will be just a walk in the park, and what the heir carries of repercussions of the earthquakes, volcanoes and flood, which descended on Gaza in October of the year 2023, destroying the crops and the offspring, with the doctrine of annihilation, erasure and burning, which the criminal killers brought into service as a worship to take revenge on the others, drawing inspiration for its teachings from the books of biblical fundamentalism carried by dreams of expansion and tendencies of control.

The lives of 25,000 children were lost over the past year, as well as the lives of men, youth and women. Homes and buildings were demolished, churches, mosques, schools, hospitals and universities were destroyed, cities, neighbourhoods and camps were wiped out, and hundreds of families were erased from the civil registry.

"It is remembered and not repeated"... that year that has passed and gone.

Stop the genocide now..!