“We are living death”: A journalist from Gaza tells the tragedy of displacement and despair policy
In his diaries, the journalist Rami Abu Jamous provides “Urian 21”, an impressive and profound certificate for the ongoing tragedy experienced by the residents of the Gaza Strip.
After he had to leave his house in Gaza City with his family in October 2023, at the threat of the Israeli army, Abu Jamous and his family moved forcibly between Rafah, Deir Al -Balah and Al -Nusayrat, so they embodied the suffering of hundreds of thousands of displaced people inside this “miserable and dense area.”
Abu Jamous’s testimony is highlighted in the plan of forced displacement and comprehensive destruction. For him, the Israeli operation called “Gideon’s vehicles” does not hide an unannounced goal, but rather seeks to “pushing all the residents of Gaza to move towards the sea, south, towards Rafah, the city that destroyed the occupation’s entirely.”
We are facing a lion that tears us, kills us, and slays us, but it is not alone, so this lion is behind there is tigers, leopards and crocodiles that support it
Abu Jamous believes that the symbolic name of the new Israeli operation is interesting, saying, “As is always the case, there is a religious indication, but it also refers to history. In 1948, the Jews named” Gideon Operation “on the attack by the Jewish militias on the strategic Palestinian village For the writer.
He notes that 90% of the housing has been destroyed in Rafah, stressing that the goal is to deport 2.3 million people to foreign countries. Abu Jamous describes what is happening as a “new catastrophe” aimed at completing what started in 1948, so that all of Palestine is occupied by Israel.
The scene increases darker with its reference to the Israeli use of religious references to justify the destruction, as the use of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the term “giants” at the beginning of the war was a reference to a text in the Torah calling for complete destruction that does not exclude “men, women, children, breastfeeding, or embryos, as well as livestock, horses and housing.”
Abu Jamous describes this as “the worst of a possible state terrorism,” asking: Why is it not called “Jewish terrorism.” It also reveals the Israeli plan to divide Gaza into 5 parts, with “torture corridors” where the displaced are liquidated and pushed in the south, with the “massacres” continuing.
He points out that between 400 thousand and 600 thousand people in the north are hungry, “they eat hay and grass on the street, and they boil the contaminated water to drink.”
In the midst of this despair, Abu Jamous highlights the hardship of the inhabitants of Gaza and their arrival at the indifference point between life and death.
Despite their knowledge of the army’s power and its ability to commit the massacres against those who do not obey the evacuation orders, many decided to stay.
“Their lives or death, the matter is for them. They are very exhausted to move again.”
He adds that the area called “humanity” in the command is subject to “almost daily bombing … and they target the tents of the displaced, and entire families are killed.”
He explains that “we are facing a lion that tears us, kills us, and sacrifices us, but it is not alone, so this lion is behind there tigers, leopards and crocodiles that support it,” highlighting that the situation requires the Palestinians at the present time more wisdom than it requires courage, as the current success is in avoiding the displacement of the people of Gaza from their land.
Abu Jamous concludes his testimony with a phrase that summarizes the existential tragedy: “We are alive, breathing, but we live death, and we will not leave.” It is believed that the world, despite its reluctance to pronounce the word “genocide”, may “understand that we are living a genocide.”
