The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, UNRWA July 14, 2025: THE CLOCK IS TICKING FAST FOR STARVING CHILDREN IN GAZA
At UNRWA, we have over 6,000 trucks of food, hygiene supplies and medicines outside of Gaza waiting for the green light to go in. The aid will mainly help little girls like Ahlam. UNRWA also has more than 1,000 health workers who can provide boys and girls with specialised nutritional services.
Amid the daily livestream of horrors we get from Gaza on our screens, one cannot help but ask how many more Ahlam’s and Salam’s have to die before taking action?
How much longer until a ceasefire is reached so that bombs stop falling on emaciated and dying children....?
And Al Jazeera, July 20: 18 in Gaza die from starvation in one day amid Israeli blockade.
almost, with eyes closed
to this shrapnel-filled world ...
a Gazan newborn
this dull-eyed baby
with loose skin over bone ...
a Gazan boy
scrapes the bottom of a cracked pot
for leftover grains
between his teeth
a piece of hummus-stuffed bread ...
maimed orphan's last meal
And
too much to ask YOU
to see Gazans as humans?
60, 000 deaths
silenced, forgotten, buried
under the weight of daily life
(FYI: The death toll was 50, 000 deaths on March 24, 2025. For more, see Special Feature: Selected Poems on 50,000 DEATHS in GAZA)
To conclude today's special post, I would like to share with you the latest entry of Against the Drowning Noise of Other Words, CCIII: "the luckiest one"
her gaunt face
swollen and covered in burns ...
this one-legged girl
the luckiest one while others are
buried under the smoky rubble
FYI: "Israel's oldest daily, Haaretz," which was was sanctioned by the Israeli government on Nov. 24, 2024
July 21, 2025: While Israelis Are Watching TV Cook-offs, Israel Continues to Kill and Starve Multitudes of Gazans
Hala Arafat cried out to be rescued from the rubble for hours; the IDF targeted anyone who tried to help. An hour away in Tel Aviv, life goes on as normal as the Air Force carries out another war crime.
Added: Against the Drowning Noise of Other Words, CCIV: "the entire town encaged"
the West Bank town
caged with barbed wire ...
the red glow
of a soldier's Marlboro
against the borderless night sky
FYI: +972 Magazine, July 14 2025: The suffocation of Sinjil (close to Ramallah)
Encaging the West Bank town with barbed wire, Israel has cut off residents’ land and left others exposed to settler attacks, including a recent lynching.
Earlier this year, the Israeli army erected a towering barbed wire fence that has turned the town into an open-air prison. Built along Route 60, the West Bank’s main north-south highway, the fence has virtually sealed residents off from the outside world and severed them from thousands of dunams of farmland, while leaving those on the other side of the fence totally exposed to settler lynchings like last week’s deadly attack.
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