SPEECH-LESS or

Can Truth be Silenced?

on the 200-300 Gazan journalists murdered by the IDF

 We are now entering a world 

“where Everyone knows Everything - about Nothing…” 

(Rudy Ratzsch – Carrickmines - 2 September, 2025)

SPEECH-LESS - Global Rights 

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Now, so we are told, Speaking

is soon to be cancelled.

 

The message arrives via missile or drone,

through wall or window or roof.

 

It wakes even the sleeping children

- soon to die.

 

This missile means you must stop talking.

This missile means your mouth must be permanently closed.

 

This missile means enormous profit for the arms companies

enormous loss for everyone else

 

This missile comes with a label ‘Made in the USA’.

This missile comes with a slogan ‘God Bless America’

This missile screams “Make America Great Again”

 

This missile is “the most moral missile in the world”, we are told.

 

This is the missile killed Anas Al-Sharif, (Al Jazeera correspondent) murdered Mohammed Qreiqeh, (Al Jazeera cameramen), murdered Ibrahim Zaher, murdered Mohammed Noufal and Moamen Aliwa  (“Al-Sharif's nephew, who was studying journalism”).

 

 Still, no one in Gaza shut their innocent mouths…

 

Days later

this is also the missile killed journalist Mariam Abu Daqqa herself.

Mariam Abu Daqqa who wrote a few days before:

"Abu Anas... Your departure is indescribable pain,

 as if a piece of my heart went with you.

You were my support, the voice that reassured me...

The hero has fallen, but he has not died in our hearts." (Contd.)

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Mariam Abu Dagga 

( born 1992 –  assassinated 25 August 2025)  

Mariam Abu Dagga was one of the few female war correspondents working in Gaza when she was killed by Israeli forces on 25 August 2025, at the Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, southern Gaza

 

 UNRWA UPDATE September 24, 2025

• Between 7 October 2023 and 24 September 2025, according to the Ministry of Health (MoH) in Gaza, as stated by OCHA, at least 65,419 Palestinians have been reportedly killed in Gaza and 167,160 have been injured.
• According to records of the UN Human Rights Office (OHCHR), since the establishment of the Israeli militarized food  distribution system in the Gaza Strip on 27 May and as of 22 September, at least 2,340 people seeking assistance have been killed.