Gaza.. The beginning of a new year and the genocide continues

Death by cold is no longer a word in people’s dictionary as a metaphor for a situation that does not happen. Rather, it has unfortunately become a reality amidst the ongoing war of extermination and the world’s silence. We are witnessing the death of infants and children after their bodies froze, in displacement tents that do not protect from the rain, nor do they prevent the cold and frost on these coldest nights, while they are in the open without a shelter suitable for living, and without blankets to warm their bodies, and under the fire of continuous shelling from all sides.

The death of children from cold wounds the conscience, pains the soul, and hurts the spirit, and gives us a thousand reasons for disappointment. With the continuation of the war of extermination and our entry into the new year, our hopes that we had attached to stopping this massacre before the beginning of the year have been shattered, but the occupation government insists on continuing its sinful aggression, and insists on procrastinating in reaching an agreement that stops this massacre, and brings the people of Gaza out of the suffering of their days, and out of the darkness of fate, because Netanyahu does not want this war to end, and does not want it to stop. Rather, he and his government and soldiers relish the death and killing of people, and all the terrifying scenes in sound and image that come out of Gaza.

A new year has begun, and on New Year’s Eve, while people around the world were gathering their private and public wishes, near a warm fireplace, a house with a roof and walls, and children with promising dreams, people in Gaza were living that night like all other nights in a tent amidst the cold and heavy rain, and under the bombardment that continued and did not stop for even an hour, and the soldiers were celebrating our death and holding their celebrations on our bodies and remains from their tanks and planes, and they were delighted by the death of our children from cold, bombardment, and hunger, and they were bragging about their crimes that they were committing intentionally and with premeditation, deliberation, and persistence in doing them, those crimes that are against humanity, and against all customs, laws, and religions.

The days of the war of extermination in Gaza do not know the end of one year or the beginning of another, because the people of Gaza count their time by the second and the minute, by the torments of their fates and their days, by the wounds, pain and suffering, and by waiting for the time when this massacre will stop. They pin their hopes on the awakening of the global conscience to impose a halt to this war and lift the suffering of the people who live in a difficult and impossible reality.