Messages from life under bombardment – Straight from the heart of Gaza (4)
For us in Gaza there’s no difference between morning and night. Death is continuous, 24 hours a day, in all five governorates. The genocide has been ongoing for 210 days.
For us in Gaza there’s no difference between morning and night. Death is continuous, 24 hours a day, in all five governorates. The genocide has been ongoing for 210 days.
Impunity legitimizes the unspeakable and renders it acceptable despite the incredulity it evokes when we think of the victims, who are just people, like us. If it is being allowed for all these people to be killed with no accountability, what really is the value of human life?
Since the beginning of the war in Gaza on October 7, 2023, Medfeminiswiya has decided to convey the stories of women, activists, and correspondents from the heart of Gaza. To make their voices heard, to deceive the looming depression, but above all, to give personal narratives the importance they deserve. Rola Abou Hashem, a journalist and correspondent for Radio "Nisaa FM," tells us about her daily life under the bombs.
We will not forget, and we will not forgive. We will not forget that some women were in support of a bloody occupation at the expense of an occupied and oppressed people. Nor will we forget, when these women open up in the future about how men make wars, seize lands, and exploit women, that they once supported the most heinous killing machine in history.
Today, we rely first and foremost on decentralized organizations that build bridges and dialogue among themselves, challenging the major institutions that preach to us night and day about things that they themselves have no regard for whatsoever. We count on them not to get tired of persevering in their transnational solidarity, in hopes that those forced into isolation not remain so isolate
The findings are unforgiving, but nothing regarding the widespread violence committed against women ever changes.
Since the beginning of the war in Gaza on October 7, 2023, Medfeminiswiya has decided to convey the stories of women, activists, and correspondents from the heart of Gaza. To make their voices heard, to deceive the looming depression, but above all, to give personal narratives the importance they deserve. Rola Abou Hashem, a journalist and correspondent for Radio "Nisaa," tells us about her daily life under the bombs.
This time, I did not join a pro-Palestine march in Algeria only to cover it. This time, I went wearing two hats: my journalist hat and my feminist activist hat, and between the two I fluctuated from anger to anxiety to sadness, pain, hope…
Algerian writer Kamel Daoud* considers that the priority today is to understand Israel and criticize the resistance in Palestine and people’s anger over the massacres being committed. In this light, he sent, via French newspaper Le Point, a letter** to an unknown Israeli whom he grew up to hate and later learned to understand. Below is a letter to a known Palestinian woman, written by Algerian Wiame Awres.
Since the beginning of the war in Gaza on October 7, 2023, Medfeminiswiya has decided to convey the stories of women, activists, and correspondents from the heart of Gaza. To make their voices heard, to deceive the looming depression, but above all, to give personal narratives the importance they deserve. Rola Abou Hashem, a journalist and correspondent for Radio "Nisaa FM" tells us about her daily life under the bombs.
© 2023 Medfeminiswiya - Mediterranean Network for Feminist Information
© 2023 Medfeminiswiya - Mediterranean Network for Feminist Information