Now, Palestinians lost their right to even be just numbers.
“Yesterday, Israel achieved one of the main objectives of its war against Gaza’s health organisations. The death toll of thousands has been causing a worldwide uprising of anger against Israel, which increases every day as the numbers increase. With the health system collapsing, the health administration can not count the numbers of deaths and injuries. Starting today and to the end of the war, perhaps even years after, we won’t know the real death toll. They will be buried in mass graves or be left in the open or under the rubbles for their corpses to rot. We would have liked to say that Palestinians are humans, lives, faces, and names, and not just numbers. Now, Palestinians lost their right to even be just numbers. The world was too cheap to leave them with even just that”
X/Formerly known as twitter user states: Hi. It’s day 42, and as a Palestinian and a journalist and a woman and a Muslim let me take this opportunity to remind you: Gaza is not your poverty porn. My extended family and my people are not a charity case. My roots and my culture are not tragic or unfortunate /1
I see the US and Canadian mainstream media have woken up to Gaza coverage but from a humanitarian perspective alone. Palestinians are being portrayed as dirt poor and unsanitary and so very desperate -thus leading this part of the world to see them -at best -as mere unlucky souls. 2/
And it’s become normalized here to see these unlucky souls as sacrificial lambs in pursuit of some idealized greater good. Usually an illusion, and through a Western lens. 3/
Palestinians are threatened, harassed, detained, tortured, maimed, and killed by the Israeli occupation.This has been the case for decades while most of you looked away.You don’t get to look back in now just to run a sad story that makes you feel good about yourself. 4/4
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