"Who said Gazans are worried about dying? There are many people around the world who worry about dying, including some Americans who don’t have health insurance or who live in areas that are at risk of wildfires. But our worry is not about dying. Palestinians are worried about being killed by Israeli soldiers, settlers, bombs, and bullets. How do you stop people from being killed? Not by removing the people who have been shot and bombed—but by stopping the people who are doing the shooting and bombing.
Since the start of the fragile ceasefire in Gaza, in late January, more than a hundred Palestinians have been killed and many more wounded." Mosab Abu Toha
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A man in Jabalia sells bread under the remnants of his bakery, which was destroyed during an Israeli attack.Photograph by Abdel Kareem Hana / AP |
When I first heard that President Donald Trump was making comments about the future of Gaza,
I was in New York City, at a special screening celebrating the new
season of my friend Mo Amer’s Netflix show, “Mo.” Then another friend
texted me: “Hideous Trump press conference in which he says America will
take over Gaza. We’ll talk tomorrow.” I was shocked. But whom would the
United States take Gaza from? Israeli forces levelled entire
neighborhoods and then withdrew. My friend Ahmad, from Beit Hanoun, in
northern Gaza, told me that people have returned to their neighborhoods
not to resume their old lives but “to live over the rubble of their
houses.” But even the rubble in Gaza has meaning to us. It is where our
loved ones lived and died. When the time comes, we are the only people
who will be removing what must be removed, only to reuse it to rebuild... READ MORE https://www.newyorker.com/news/essay/gaza-must-be-rebuilt-by-palestinians-for-palestinians
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