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Friday, December 5, 2025

"I experienced hunger, I experienced bombing and shelling, and I have experienced exile and loss because I am Palestinian, because I am from Gaza, all I did was I was born in Gaza. Gaza is a small place that is very beautiful, it has a lovely sea, and lovely weather, not like the weather here. There is sun, and no wind. I am here today to tell you how Gaza is beautiful and how people there are very nice, and all the children love to play and they love to go to school and they love to be children like other children. I am here to tell you about Palestine, our culture, our traditions, and that we love life, we don’t like destruction and that we don’t deserve what we have lived through and continue to live through.”" Renad from Gaza

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During my participation in the International Day of Solidarity with Palestine at the Palestinian embassy in The Hague, I shared with the world part of my story and how I became not a child anymore.

This is part of my speech:

“Today, I am here without my family, without my mum, not in my home country. The only thing I have is my voice and this is the only reason why my mother allowed e to leave, when we got the opportunity to leave Gaza, she let me leave because she knew my voice will be the voice of people living in Gaza who are without food, without water, without shelter, and who are now living in tents in the piercing cold.

I experienced hunger, I experienced bombing and shelling, and I have experienced exile and loss because I am Palestinian, because I am from Gaza, all I did was I was born in Gaza.

Gaza is a small place that is very beautiful, it has a lovely sea, and lovely weather, not like the weather here. There is sun, and no wind. I am here today to tell you how Gaza is beautiful and how people there are very nice, and all the children love to play and they love to go to school and they love to be children like other children. I am here to tell you about Palestine, our culture, our traditions, and that we love life, we don’t like destruction and that we don’t deserve what we have lived through and continue to live through.”

Renad Attallah

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Friday, September 5, 2025

"In Gaza, journalists are not just relaying the tragedies of displacement, loss, and starvation. They are experiencing it firsthand in all of its extremities, too. But when journalists are also targets, who reports on them? More than 270 Palestinian media personnel have been killed in 21 months. Who defended them? This was the duty of international journalists: to stand by their peers, to serve as their armour, to amplify their voices." Text Mariam Barghouti | Photography Ahmed Younes & Ali Jadall

The eyes of truth

From Gaza comes the clearest record of our time, witnessed and told by journalists who risk their lives to preserve it. Their truth must guide us all. When they speak, we must listen; it is our utmost duty now. September 4th, 2025

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Text Mariam Barghouti | Photography Ahmed Younes & Ali Jadallah

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At the time of writing, at least eight journalists have been killed by Israel, adding to the over 270 Palestinian media personnel killed in Gaza during the last 21 months. Among them is photojournalist Mariam Riyad Abu Dagga, who was photographed and interviewed for this feature. She was murdered by Israel in a targeted attack on Nasser Hospital, alongside four other journalists: Ahmed Abu Aziz, Hussam al-Masri, Mohammad Salama, and Moaz Abu Taha. She was 33 years old and is survived by her son, Ghaith.

International journalists choose calm scenes—they don’t want the scenes of blood, the screaming. But as local journalists, we live the moment in the field. It’s not just the event, it’s us in the event.” – Mariam Riyad Abu Dagga

On 10 August, shortly after my peer Anas Al-Sharif was savagely killed along with an entire Al Jazeera crew that included Mohammed Qraiqea, Mohamed Nofal, and Ibrahim Thaher as well as freelancers Moamen Aliwa and Mohammed al-Khalidi, Hind Khoudary took to X, addressing media outlets worldwide.

“I will not speak to foreign media about the killing of Palestinian journalists,” wrote the award-winning Palestinian journalist. “I will not sit on your global channels to be part of a segment you’ll forget by tomorrow.” Capturing their hypocrisy and hollow coverage in a matter of words, she added: “To you, we are just a headline—a tragedy to consume, not colleagues to defend.”

In Gaza, journalists are not just relaying the tragedies of displacement, loss, and starvation. They are experiencing it firsthand in all of its extremities, too. But when journalists are also targets, who reports on them? More than 270 Palestinian media personnel have been killed in 21 months. Who defended them? This was the duty of international journalists: to stand by their peers, to serve as their armour, to amplify their voices.

Instead, western coverage of Palestinians is marred by a repeated pattern of contradiction, claiming to uphold objective, non-partisan reporting while framing Israel’s atrocity crimes as “self-defence”. Between what is said and what is actually happening are the Palestinian journalists on the ground, who continue to personify the essence of journalism by holding power accountable and preserving memory against systemic erasure.

Displaced, not defeated Nour Swirki

Journalists are journalists, not superheroes Shrouq Al Aila, Hind Khoudary

The sister, the daughter, the mother, the missing Hind, Nour, Shrouq, and Mariam

Murder as a passing note Mariam Riyad Abu Dagga

Absent media, present youth Renad Attallah

It doesn’t end ... Say their names, cite their work, defend their lives.

Thursday, September 4, 2025

CSM: Cooking videos got these Gazans a global following. Now, there’s nothing to eat.... “This famine is entirely man-made [BY ISRAELI BLOCKADE]"

Renad Attallah by a clay oven in Gaza where she cooked when there was food- her Instagram account has more than 1.6 million followers.

By Ghada Abdulfattah Special contributor

Sept. 02, 2025, 1:20 p.m. ET | Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip

For more than a year, Renad Attallah’s Instagram cooking tutorials offered an unusual window into life in the Gaza Strip.

On @renadfromgaza, the giggly 11-year-old explained to her 1.6 million followers how to cook hamburgers with canned meat from an aid parcel. In another video, she quipped at the drones buzzing overhead as she explained how to make a banana roll “the Gazan way.”

“It looks like the drone above us likes cream – that’s why it’s out!” she joked. As basic ingredients became increasingly scarce in Gaza, Renad improvised, mashing cooked pasta to make bread.

Why We Wrote This

Their Instagram accounts became globally popular for showing the creative ways Palestinians in Gaza cooked and ate in a time of war. But as hunger spread, the story they were sharing began to change.

But Renad’s popularity isn’t due only to her made-for-social-media cuteness. With foreign media excluded from Gaza, and local journalists regularly killed in the line of duty, social media has become one of the few windows still cracked open onto life in the besieged territory. Through the eyes of Renad and other content creators, the conflict’s devastating effects on civilians play out in real time.

“It’s not about views. It’s not about comments,” Renad says. “It’s about the truth of our lives.”

“The Gazan way”

And the truth now is that Palestinians in Gaza are starving. In late August, United Nations agencies warned that close to 100% of people in Gaza are facing a hunger crisis, and 1 in 3 will experience famine – meaning “catastrophic conditions characterized by starvation, destitution and death” – by the end of September.

“This famine is entirely man-made,” the U.N.-backed report said.... READ MORE https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2025/0902/renadingaza-hamadashoo-instagram-gaza-famine-hunger

Wednesday, July 9, 2025

11 year old Renad Attallah of Gaza "... but i am just exhausted like everyone else in gaza, exhausted from war, starving, from waiting ceasefire, but I still have hope- Love you all

Renad Attallah, 11 years old
Youth Ambassador @hcicanada
“Children Deserve To Be children“

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Sunday, February 23, 2025

The BBC documentary was rated 5 stars by @guardian before it was pulled... Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone review – these incredible children offer a sliver of hope: This often-distressing BBC documentary follows astonishing kids working as TikTok chefs and hospital porters – and shows their determination to smile in the face of unimaginable horror

All the children in the film share a disorienting matter-of-fact tone’ … Abdullah, who acts as narrator in Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone. Photograph: Amjad Al Fayoumi/BBC/Hoyo Films

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The BBC documentary was rated 5 stars by @guardian before it was pulled

Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone review – these incredible children offer a sliver of hope

Jack Seale

Mon 17 Feb 2025 17.00 EST

Last modified on Fri 21 Feb 2025 11.37 EST

The children of Gaza will be its future, if they are able to remain there. Starting several months into Israel’s bombardment and continuing right up until the recent ceasefire, London-based directors Jamie Roberts and Yousef Hammash made their documentary Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone by remotely instructing two local cameramen, Amjad Al Fayoumi and Ibrahim Abu Ishaiba, as they captured life inside the “safe zone” – an ever-changing, ever-dwindling area in the south-west of Gaza, designated by Israel as the place where displaced Palestinians should reside. That the cameras predominantly follow children has an unexpected double effect: it makes the film’s many deeply distressing moments all the more unbearable, yet it tinges them with some sort of hope.

The kids are led by 13-year-old Abdullah, who acts as narrator as well as appearing on camera. “This area used to be colourful,” he says, briskly touring a scene of apocalyptic destruction in Khan Younis, where he lived in a house that sheltered 40 people before Israeli bombs turned it to dusty rubble. “Now, it’s grey.”

Abdullah maintains a wryly sunny tone as he describes how you live after you’ve lost everything, and his determination to smile while surviving is matched by 10-year-old Renad, whose method of coping with shells landing a terrifyingly short distance away is to laugh and chatter, even as the earth shakes. Renad concentrates instead on her online cooking channel: we see her recording a guide to making a dessert, apologising to viewers for having to use powdered milk. She is a natural presenter, fluent and engagingly upbeat. “They’re from all over the world,” Renad says of her growing TikTok fanbase. “If there is too long between posting videos, they check on me, thinking I got killed.”

Most remarkable is Zakaria, an indefatigable 11-year-old who chooses to spend all his time bustling around al-Aqsa, the only fully functioning hospital still standing in Gaza, having appointed himself to work as a volunteer... READ MORE https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/feb/17/gaza-how-to-survive-a-warzone-review-these-incredible-children-offer-a-sliver-of-hope

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Sunday, September 29, 2024

Dear America- American blood Arab blood Christian blood Jewish blood Muslim blood all blood is just blood. Stop arming endlessly escalating war. Just stop.

renadfromgaza

"CHILDREN DESERVE TO BE CHILDREN"

Dear America- letter sent to my elected leaders,

How many human beings- men, women, & children- have Zionists been harassing, impoverishing, traumatizing, wounding, and murdering since Zionists decided they wanted the land of Historic Palestine- but not the indigenous people of that land.

We are no longer living in a myopically cruel world where Might is Right, and the biggest BULLY "wins" ... The horrors of the Nazi Holocaust should have taught us better, taught us to do better by all of humanity for ALL human beings, regardless of supposed race or religion.

Israel's aggressive state sponsored terrorism, violence, bigotry, and injustice is being armed, funded and excused by Western Powers, with our country, the USA, being at the top of the list for complicity with war crimes.

Israel's reign of terror has systemically displaced people, tortured people, and killed people. In 1946 Zionist terrorists bombed the King David hotel in Jerusalem (Palestine), killing 91 people of various nationalities and injuring 45. So what does the West do- in 1948 they hand Zionist terrorists the power to divide and destroy the Holy Land, in a myriad of ways, including cruel Apartheid policies. What an example to set! Zionists can use terrorist tactics but Arabs and Muslims can not.

I do not like HAMAS or Hezbollah, or terrorism, or religious extremism of any type, but can you blame them for trying to protect their loved ones from Israel's constant crimes against humanity!

It is disgusting that American jobs are being based on weapons manufacturing funded by tax payers, and those weapons are feeding the Zionist war machine called Israel as it obliterates Arab homes, families, farms, and livelihoods.

American blood Arab blood Christian blood Jewish blood Muslim blood all blood is just blood: Stop arming endlessly escalating war. Just stop.

Sincerely,

Anne Selden Annab

NOTES https://anniesnewletters.blogspot.com/search/label/Notes

Isabella Hammad "... many, many people who don’t have anything to do with Palestine are devastated by what they’re seeing, which has shattered all sorts of illusions they had about their societies and their governments and about what’s humanly possible in terms of destruction."

At least 35 children killed in Israeli airstrikes as thousands flee their homes amid fresh attack on Lebanon

Our Common Future #ActForHumanity

UN General Assembly demands Israel end ‘unlawful presence’ in Occupied Palestinian Territory: "With a recorded vote of 124 nations in favour, 14 against, and 43 abstentions, the resolution calls for Israel to comply with international law and withdraw its military forces, immediately cease all new settlement activity, evacuate all settlers from occupied land, and dismantle parts of the separation wall it constructed inside the occupied West Bank."

Don't give Israel the power to destroy the United Nations, the International Court of Justice, International Law, The Universal Declaration of Human Rights... and America.

Accusing peaceful pro-Palestine protesters of being "antisemitic" pleases Israel but it does not make any Jews any safer anywhere.

Send an honorable message far and wide- we believe in freedom of and from religion... and we believe in real justice, peace, and security for ALL !

"Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world..." https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-human-rights

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