Everyone has now experienced the feeling of lockdown and quarantine. Fortunately, this is to save lives. In Gaza, it has only caused death and suffering.
On December 3rd Abdalhadi Alijla woke up to learn over social media that his father had passed away. Alijla had not seen him in 12 years due to Israeli restrictions: “Since I left Gaza in 2007, Israel has denied my entry back into Gaza and has revoked my registry for no obvious reason, other than my being from Gaza. My father died with sorrow and pain because of the actions of Israel and I myself will live with sorrow and pain, forever remembering how the settler colonial Israel inflicted this pain on myself, my father and my people by building virtual and physical walls between loved ones.”