The very world perpetrating genocide asks Palestinians to prove that their children are indeed in pieces under the rubble, and not terrorists in a tunnel. Amid all the proving, there is no time to mourn.
Those who say that Israel knew about the plans for October 7 all along are repackaging an old colonial trope which believes that the natives are too docile, too submissive, too cowardly, and too inferior to revolt against their oppressors.
Shireen Abu Akleh’s assassination and the barbaric assault on her funeral are but incidents in Israel’s unceasing 74+ year ethnic cleansing campaign of Palestine.
Israeli settlement expansion is not only illegal, it is also destroying Palestine’s environment through the urbanization of the West Bank.