By Andrea Tucci,
Seventy-five members of three different families have been killed in the past few days.
Neighbors dug through concrete and iron with their bare hands, managing to recover only the bodies of two children; the others remained buried under the rubble, as if the earth had swallowed them whole.
Entire family trees were wiped out in a diabolical and criminal action by the IDF.
And this is only a fragment of the genocidal violence currently devastating Gaza.
On September 8, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz declared: “A mighty hurricane will soon hit the skies of Gaza City, and the roofs of the terror towers will shake.”
Words that translated into a death sentence for Gaza City, a city over 5.000 years old, cradle of civilization, history, and culture.
Israeli attacks began in the areas of al-Zeitoun, al-Tuffah, al-Daraj, and al-Shujaiya, the oldest parts of Gaza, where layers of memory and history were engraved in the stones and streets, now reduced to dust.
These working-class neighborhoods once preserved the city’s oldest monuments: al-Omari Mosque (634 AD), Hamam al-Sammara (1320), and al-Saqqa Palace (1661).
Today, Zeitoun no longer exists: over 1,500 homes have been leveled by the bombings.
What remained of the University, Alma Mater, was also destroyed, declared a “military target” despite housing hundreds of innocent families.
The bombardment now engulfs every neighborhood of Gaza City – east, west, north, and south – with violence so intense that it can be heard as far away as Tel Aviv.
The streets are rapidly turning into cemeteries for those who could not escape in time.
The skies over Gaza, filled with drones, are pierced by the screams of children, even deprived of painkillers to ease the agony of amputations.
Following Israeli evacuation orders, entire families are forcing to flee from a city exhaling its last breaths,
All of this occurs with the complicity of Western states, including the United States and the United Kingdom, which, despite having officially recognized Palestine just a few days ago, have not completely stopped arms exports to Israel even in the face of UN reports openly describing genocide.
But the “Gates of Hell,” evoked by Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, did not open suddenly; they have been burning for a long time, since the Nakba of 1948.
The West plays a double game: on one hand, pretending to recognize the Palestinian state at the UN, while on the other, continuing to arm Israel, effectively erasing any possibility of a free and sovereign Palestine.
While the people of the world watch in shock, Gaza city and Its People Burn…
