"This post is dedicated to commemorating the memories and lives of families and friends and people we followed on social media before they left us. (Please leave your comment. Mourn!) I mourn the loss of all lives, especially the 31 members of my extended family, three first cousins and their children, Refaat, Marouf, Hind, Hamza, Yousef, Ismael, and lately my brilliant student Hatem. I mourn the destruction of our house, my books, my mint plant, the pigeons, ducks, and rabbits. My bike. The family photo album. The school where I taught. The graves of my relatives that were razed, especially my young brother and my grandparents. I mourn, I mourn. It does not end." Mosab Abu Taha
Ongoing US supported genocide: 365 days of forced starvation and deliberate preventing humanitarian aid; 3,628 massacres; 41,900 registered deaths that arrived at hospitals; over 10,000 missing presumed dead (some maybe in Israeli jails); 11,458 registered women and >16,891 registered children killed (710 less than one year old); estimated 90,000-100,000 dead due to medical and food conditions; 986 medical personnel killed; 174 journalists killed; 96,359 injured; 25,973 orphaned children; over four thousand children lost limbs; over 10,000 cancer patients not getting treatment (or even pain killers); 1,737,524 acquired communicable or other diseases due to health/sanitation issues (71,338 hepatitis); >55,000 pregnant women without prenatal care; nearly 2 million displaced/homeless; 611 mosques and 3 churches completely destroyed (+211 partial); 125 schools and universities completely destroyed (337 partial); 34 hospitals put out of service or destroyed; 2,835 km of roads destroyed; 655 km of water system lines destroyed; 86% of buildings/infrastructure damaged/destroyed; 33 billion estimates damage.
And there is a horrific apartheid system implemented here in the West Bank where people are forcibly displaced, prevented from access to land and resources, and regularly attacked. Now basically only 10% of the land is usable by its owners and is fragmented in over 15 tiny enclaves. Armed colonial settlers kill and torture Palestinians and engage in lynchings and pogroms with impunity.
But we had 76 Years of Impunity and things keep getting worse: There are over 70 UN Security Council resolutions violated by Israel; hundreds of UN General Assembly resolutions violated; Ignored relevant rulings of the International Court of Justice (on illegality of occupation, on apartheid policies, on ending genocidal practices); violations of all relevant conventions (Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Genocide and apartheid conventions etc.)
What happened 7 October? see also ongaza.org
Here are selected letters/comments I had written in 2023 some predictive of the future:
- Letter to Gaza
- Letter to the World
- Letter/questions to Israelis and Jews
- Letter to US Citizens
- Letter to the PLO
- Poem for Gaza (written Nov, 2023)
- and in January 2024: Genocide, sex extortion, and people movement
Stay Human and keep Palestine alive
Mazin Qumsiyeh
A bedouin in cyberspace, a villager at home
Professor, Founder, and (volunteer) Director Palestine Museum of Natural History
Palestine Institute of Biodiversity and Sustainability Bethlehem University Occupied Palestine
facebook pages Personal Institute
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