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Gaza diary:Â By Mohammed Ali in Gaza City As the death toll from Israel’s war on Gaza continues to climb, Mohammed Ali, an advocacy and media researcher for Oxfam who lives in Gaza City, will be keeping a diary of his feelings and experiences.
The air, the sea and the earth in Gaza City are now occupied by the Israeli military. They occupy Gazans’ minds, nerves and ears too.
In a bid to stop my children twitching, jerking, trembling and waking at every sound of an attack during their few hours of sleep and their many waking hours, I put cotton wool in their ears - it has not worked. I wonder what damage is being done to my children’s tiny hearts. Theirs are not as big as mine, they can cope less with the stress that is being put on them. We ran out of fuel for our generator, which meant that we were confined to a small room filled with eleven people, with little light for three days.
Unlike many other families, we were fortunate yesterday to find 20 litres of benzene to power our generator. No fuel has come in since the onset of this attack on Gaza so we had to pay seven times its usual price. We have one day’s worth of food left and the nappies I bought two weeks ago are nearly gone. They are not good quality as little has been able to enter this strip of land since the blockade was imposed on us 18 months ago. Bad quality nappies mean unpleasant leakages, and for the last few days the little ones have had to be bathed in freezing cold water. My sister who was with us the last time I wrote decided to return home in spite of our protests. She feared that with food reserves running out we might have to eat one meal a day rather than the two we have been having of late. At home she has a little food left, enough to keep her and her family going for a while longer. We are now 11, huddled together in my parents’ dining room. My brother and I and our families moved there, thinking that the first floor may be the safest option. There is a saying in Arabic which says “death in a group is a mercy”. I guess if we die together maybe, just maybe, we will feel less of the pain than in doing so alone. I have had 8 hours sleep since the beginning of this conflict; we can hear attacks almost every minute.
Even if they did get to us, maybe we would be bombed on our way to the hospital. If we did reach the hospital there might not be enough room to treat us - there is little medication or equipment or any electricity to fuel the life-saving equipment. We would not even be able to get out of Gaza for the life-saving treatment we needed. Hospitals are now running on back-up generators making life even more difficult for the doctors who are trying to cope with the influx of the injured. If fuel runs out for the generators, those on life-saving equipment will perish. I heard a woman calling into a radio station today - ambulance services could not reach her and I guess she thought the radio station might be able to do something. She was wailing down the phone “our home is on fire, my children are dying, help me”. I do not know what happened to her and her children - I do not want to imagine. I spend much of my time thinking that this could be the last hour of my existence.
I will be just another number to all those watching the death and destruction in Gaza or maybe the fact that I work for Oxfam will mean that I will be a name and not just a number. I might be talked about for a minute and moments later forgotten, like all those other people who have had their lives taken away from them. I am not afraid of dying - I know that one day we all must die. But not like this, not sitting idly in my home with my children in my arms waiting for our lives to be taken away. I am disgusted by this injustice. What is the international community waiting for - to see even more dismembered people and families erased before they act? Time is ticking by and the numbers of dead and injured are increasing. What are they waiting for? What is happening is against humanity,
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This is a battle of nerves as established fact of the matter is the Westren World occupied & thereafter whatever they decided to do they modified according to their own interest e.g. in the very first WW UK made changes all over South Asia & in Far East in 2nd WW US made changes at Japan & Germany.
But as you know in the holy Quran clearly stated by Almighty Allah particularly in the matter of Muslims with hidden hand assistance “THE BEST PLANNER IS ALLAH” therefore lets see where this deadly game would be end.
And what about those who are watching it quietly… are they humen??
May ALLAH give us Hidayah
and will to destroy evil from this world.. Ameen..but the picture of palestine has placed a strong wound on my heart which i think will never be healed,because when i come to know that innocent women and children are dying and many of them getting disabled due to lack of medical resources,just because of Ummah,s selfishness and ignorance …but we have to understand The evil powers of Today,s world are doing the same thing as we heard before,there goal is to destroy us moraly,physically and make us apart from each other,so we will never be helpful for each other and became”piece of cake” to eat therefor,every one us should be prepared for the tough time to come,and we know that they are also comming to us later or sooner ……..
what is the need of today and tommorow should be planned but we need to do something which we suppose to do later on,and that is “unification”inside Quran and the Sunnah,plus we need to make ourselves “Mujahid” which means to strugle with every aspect and be able to destroy there arms… the only thing can protect us and we must know that is the only thing in which ALLAH protect us when we fight back not to stay away and being fearful to them,but remember whatever they demand you to do and you do it fearfully,one day they will makes you victim forsure so there aggression is not political but they are willing to destroy Islam and its followers …………
We need to mourn,pray and to struggle for our Muslim Brothers and sisters of GAZA financially,moraly and physically if possible,to prove that we are Muslim to ALLAH not the people ………..
And say ISRAEL,USA & INDIA are terrorists no doubt in that ………..
FIGHT BACK UNTIL YOU GET KILLED ………..
I cried when I read this and watched the video. The innocence of children is just an amazing thing. Their simple minds must wonder why the world watches, when their schools, play grounds, roads, and every other place they go and play has been bombarded, and big weird looking machines stand their with blood all around. May God help those children who suffer this wherever they are. may God punish those who force this situation upon these children.
All of you Adnan, Tahreem, and Faraz make very valid points.
I would just like to tell this story. When Hadrat Ibrahim was thrown in fire, a sparrow went to some water nearby, filled its beak with water, and brought it to the fire, threw it on the fire. It repeated this process many times. Hadrat Gibraeel (Gabriel) AH was watching and asked the sparrow, what difference is this gonna make to this huge fire as it wont put it off?
The sparrow replied, at least when God questions me, I will be able to say that I did, whatever maximum I was capable of, instead of standing by and watching such oppression. This is not a story, but a true account of what happened that day.
So I think Adnan and Tahreem brothers can think about this story, as we can all learn something from it.
We should do whatever is the maximum we are capable of doing against such oppressions around the world. Not only for Muslims, but whoever is being oppressed, we must help as much as we can, and Allah knows already whatever is the maximum we are capable of too. it may be writing about it, it may be talking about it, it may be reading about it, it may be giving our zakaat for help, it may be giving one days food money for help, or it may be one weeks food money for help, it may be travelling there to look after the injured, or it may be just thinking about it, it is all effort, and effort we must make to help another fellow human, and as I said, God already knows what we are capable of, so no excuses as nothing is hidden between us, and Allah, he knew it all, he knows it all, and he knows whats coming too, but we also have a responsibility of our own decisions.
Just also like to add that this can happen to any one, any where. Those who think that they are safe, and well away from this conflict should also realise that no where on this earth or beyond is out of the control of Allah, or nature. So if we dont show our humanity towards other humans, then may be, others will treat us the same way.
Brother Faraz makes very good points and the words are very true. We better prepare ourselves, as they are coming for any one, who has any religion, unless its a variable religion that can be changed to suit them. Divide and rule is very much in practice, and in plan. So we must unite, we must unite, we must unite. We must become brothers/sisters in faith, and must stand shoulder to shoulder, feet to feet, and care for each other as if it was another part of our own body.
And what of Sudan and similar conflicts? Thousands more die there and not a tear is shed by those who wail over Gaza, of course doing nothing in both cases. Maybe only one is fashionable?
So the justification for this holocaust from Hindu’s point of view(apart from israelis) is that the UN school is bombed because there were weapons hidden there. perhaps they could also explain this to these young children…oh yeh i remember they cant….cos these children are probably already dead!
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