People in Gaza hoped that an expansion of the Lebanese front would ease pressure on Gaza. Instead, Israel has escalated its massacres while global attention is elsewhere. They still hope the resistance in Lebanon will make Israel pay.
As winter approaches, displaced families across Gaza are faced with two choices: either sink in overflowing sewage in destroyed cities or get flooded by rising tides on Gaza’s beach encampments.
On September 17, the Israeli army bombed a block near the al-Bureij refugee camp, completely destroying seven homes and trapping dozens under the rubble. When rescuers arrived at the scene to help, Israeli drones started firing at them as well.
Israel committed nine massacres in Gaza in just the first three days of September while the media’s attention shifts to regional developments.
A family of 12 people lived through three horrifying days, trapped with the body of their murdered family member. I spoke to one of the family members and heard their story.
Medical staff at al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital are refusing to abandon their patients after an Israeli evacuation order. “If we leave our positions, we will fail ourselves and our society,” a doctor at the hospital told Mondoweiss.
Over the past week, the Israeli army has ordered a million civilians to evacuate central Gaza, and has bombed two schools sheltering displaced people in Gaza City mere minutes after issuing warnings.
I was catching up on the news when I saw a face I recognized. It was the grieving image of my friend Muhammad, who was holding up the birth certificates of his newborn twins. They were both killed in an Israeli airstrike alongside his wife.
In a testimony obtained by Mondoweiss, a resident of Shuja’iyya recounts his motivations for wanting to join Hamas’s al-Qassam Brigades to fight against the Israeli army.
The bodies of Palestinians killed in the latest Israeli massacre in Gaza were destroyed so far beyond recognition that doctors have only been able to give grieving families an anonymous bag of human remains to bury.