A(nother) GAZA Poem… 

 …on the day after US (& England) vetoes UN resolution on Gaza which called for ‘immediate humanitarian ceasefire

A(n)other Gaza Poem...on the day after...  

 8^th December, 2023

“The UN Security Council held an emergency meeting Friday morning New York time to discuss the catastrophic situation in Gaza. This follows Wednesday’s urgent letter by Secretary-General António Guterres – one of the most powerful tools at his disposal – urging the body to help end carnage in the war-battered enclave through a lasting humanitarian ceasefire. A resolution tabled late afternoon in the chamber calling for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire was vetoed by the United States.”

 UN News

"It was the morning of a storm

where the minutes turned into rockets and missiles

where the children were now all ghosts (like all our dead

dancing in the ruins of their dreams),

their grandmothers shot by snipers

sisters and brothers buried breathless in rubble and debris

and all the fathers beaten and naked and handcuffed

…in Israeli jails..."

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