Voices of Suffering from Gaza to the Conscience of the World

“Yesterday we slept standing up, as the rainwater seeped into the tents, drowning us in the mud and clay of the camp, and our limbs froze from the frost,” one of them wrote. “The war has eaten our hearts and souls,” another wrote, while the rest said: “We are no longer able to bear the horrors of the genocide. The scale of the catastrophe is greater than what the camera captured, and more difficult than words can describe. With each day, the suffering increases, the pain expands, and the chapter of torment and oppression expands, between hunger and siege, between cold and rain, between killing and continuous shelling. Our ability to be patient has collapsed, for we are human beings of flesh and blood, and we are not extraordinary as some portray us.”

The lines written by the survivors in Gaza describing the suffering and drawing the beats of pain and suffering they are experiencing show how miserable reality has become, and how Gaza has turned into rubble, and how the impact of their words on us is indelible and unfading. A displaced woman in the camp wrote, when the journalist asked me what the war took from you? I answered it took my health. Another says I don’t want to die of cold. While another writes, the hungry don’t sleep, the afraid don’t sleep, and the cold don’t sleep, so how about the one who has all of this combined!

Scraps written by their owners in the language of the tortured in Gaza, besieged from all sides, who are living the beats of the genocide with all its bloodiness, terror and horrors that have affected all aspects of life, and there is no safe place left in Gaza suitable for living.

A woman in the Baptist Hospital shouted: “All my children are dead,” indicating that they had all died in the bombing, and she began to cry hysterically with pain and wailing in agony.

The world has not heard the voices coming out of Gaza, and even deliberately and intentionally ignores them, hiding behind the corridors of silence and stillness, and not moving to stop the ongoing brutal killing. In the test of the voice of justice, the global conscience has failed, as have all the charters, laws and bodies that have failed to stop the genocide and ethnic cleansing.

Stories of flesh and blood, tormented voices at the height of suffering and the harshness of reality, and cries for help waiting for someone to lift this injustice from them. Is there anyone who will answer?