Hospital Poem

 

 …in a time of War

 Tuesday 14 November 2023

Hospital Poem - in a Time of War 

“The world cannot stand silent while hospitals, which should be safe havens, are transformed into scenes of death, devastation, and despair,” said Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO). “  Al Jazeera, 13 November, 2023

 

“Despite repeated calls by rights groups to protect Al Shifa, Israeli troops stormed the hospital on Wednesday (15 November 2023).” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3muesSeULss

 

Hospital Poem, in a Time of War

"...may these beloved children be born to live in beauty,

may they not be destroyed nor burnt by these cruel bombs

not buried in the catastrophe of these cities!"

 

Hostilities and casualties (Gaza Strip) 

29-November, 2023

• according to the Government Media Office (GMO) in Gaza... The office also stated that, since the start of hostilities, more than 15,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza, including about 6,150 children and 4,000 women. The GMO, which is under the de facto authorities in Gaza, has been reporting casualties since the Ministry of Health (MoH) in Gaza stopped doing so on 11 November, following the collapse of services and communications at hospitals in the north.
• The fatality toll since 7 October includes at least 198 Palestinian medics, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health; 112 UN staff; 70 journalists and media workers, according to the Palestinian Journalist Syndicate; and at least 15 Civil Defense staff, according to the Palestinian Civil Defense.
• Overall, 75 Israeli soldiers have been killed in Gaza since the start of the Israeli ground operations, according to official Israeli sources.

 https://www.ochaopt.org/content/hostilities-gaza-strip-and-israel-flash-update-54

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The Question of Gaza – Just one more catastrophe (among too many others)?

The Question of Gaza? 

"We have to understand – not justify – what gives rise to this tragedy." (Mahmoud Darwish)

"If there is no other Hope than the ghost of a currently unreasonable question (the why of War, the why of Genocide, the why of Ethnic Cleansing & Holocaust) then let this one, even in its infancy, be passed by word of mouth, from person to person, on and on and on, farther and farther, until enough of us wake up…"

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“The Bird was Crying…”. An Unwritten (GAZA) Poem on an (ISRAELI) Bomb

 

'The Bird was Crying...' 

by, Ahmad,  (Nuseirat refugee camp, central Gaza)

"I keep saying

I’m still young

i haven’t seen anything in life yet.

I’m like these people:

 

…in God’s hands

 

what can we do?

 

To each his fate: that is

what will happen

to him."

Ahmad speaks of his love for animals (Poetry & Protest)