Gaza ‘CEASEFIRE’?
“Death, in Slow Motion”
or...
“Happy” “New” Year,
Gaza…
“Borrowing the words of Indian writer Arundhati Roy, ‘I tell you, another world is not only possible. She is on the way. And on a quiet day, I can hear her breathing. I hope you can hear her, too.’” Francesca Albanese
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What better way to bury our dead
than plant their silence
in fields filled with words like flowers
freed from the lies of thieves and murderers
with their highly-paid diplomats
of greed and famine and fear?
What better way, now, to lift this
mountain of rubble we carry on
over-burdened shoulders
(our collective history of shame and
cruelty and carnage)
than to dance with the “laughter of children”
chasing their amputated feet out
far beyond these endless nightmares?
The days pass.
Yet day after day
the crazed-soldiers still come.
The people keep on dying.
As if Death could not ever find enough food
to feed on the lives and dreams of so many…
Shad Hammouri
“I stand in front of you today
coming from a long struggle
with the blood of those we've lost
over a struggle
that has lasted for over a hundred years...”
The days have passed
… as if all the Dead
could somehow open their mouths,
release the pain, their unfinished farewells,
this unfinished silence of broken bodies trapped
beneath the 2,000-pound-MK-84 U.S. bombs
“…a struggle that has culminated
into a moment of genocide
where even getting one loaf of bread into Gaza
requires changing the whole of the geopolitical order.”
while the businessmen and the real-estate-men,
rub their greedy hands with glee
“in Israel, where social media and news
channels routinely chortle over the suffering
of Palestinians” (Chris Hedges)
…as if their plans and bank balances
could bring 20,000 children back to life... [Contd.]
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"…as if their plans and bank balances could bring 20,000 children back to life."
December 12, 2025 - Palestinian Casualty Figures Since the “Ceasefire” (October 11, 2025)
Total deaths: 383 Total injuries: 1,002 Bodies recovered: 627
The Overall Toll Since October 7, 2023
70,373 Palestinians killed, among them Children killed: 20,179 171,079 Palestinians wounded, among them Children injured: 31,754 Women injured: 20,179 (Daily Casualty Report – Gaza, December 11, 2025) IMEMC News - December 12, 2025
Shad Hammouri “I stand in front of you today coming from a long struggle with the blood of those we've lost over a struggle that has lasted for over a hundred years...”
“…a struggle that has culminated into a moment of genocide where even getting one loaf of bread into Gaza requires changing the whole of the geopolitical order.”
The Hague Group: Six Measures to End Israeli Impunity | 5-Minute Summary
Chris Hedges “in Israel, where social media and news channels routinely chortle over the suffering of Palestinians..." Chris Hedges: Rebranding Genocide “And for a future that awaits me amidst the rubble of life.” Donya Abu Sitta, Palestinian writer and medical student, Gaza, Palestine Donya Abu Sitta - Substack, December 17, 2025
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