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Sun 15 Jun 2025 9:52 am - Jerusalem Time

Between Tehran and Tel Aviv... Gaza is being wiped out off camera

Baha Rahal

Baha Rahal

Opinion Writer

While satellite news channels focused on covering the raging war between Tel Aviv and Tehran, images of Gaza were absent from their screens and satellite channels. During those hours, more than 100 martyrs were killed, and hundreds more were injured in massacres whose images were not present in the scene, which was quickly replaced by images from Tehran and Tel Aviv, while the war of extermination continued off-camera.

Gaza seemed absent and obscured, while the killing machine continued to bombard the tents of the displaced and the shelters. Voices of fear and terror varied among those who could not bear a single night of bombing, less bloody than all the nights that the people of Gaza had lived and are living. Some complained of fear, and some were reluctant to stay in the shelters. The American ambassador in Tel Aviv claimed that it was a difficult night, while the nights of the people of Gaza were even more difficult and terrifying, with no safe places or necessities of life. Would you, Ambassador, hurry up and push your country and government to stop the genocide? Stand neutral for a moment and put yourself or your children in the place of the children of Gaza as they are crushed and dying, living in fear, loss, hunger, and suffering.

One of them said: We spent hours in shelters, feeling intense fear. What a strange and strange paradox! The people of Gaza have been living under direct bombardment, without shelter, food, or medicine, in shabby tents for more than 610 days, while they cry out to the conscience of the world to awaken from its slumber and silence.

What is the point of these wars? A child from Gaza says: Bring back my father, my brothers, my mother's embrace, my home, and my pillow.

The reporter's voice was gone from Gaza, and other images were present. Death became more horrific in the absence of a camera, the bombing more intense in the absence of sound and image, and starving people were crushed in front of fake food distribution centers.

Dear reader, wait a minute. “Nima Hassan,” a survivor in the displacement camps, says in her post: “We are the haystack that they accused of hiding the needle, so they built the holocaust.”


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