"Almost all of those killed or who die from the cold are forcibly displaced Palestinians whose homes were destroyed by Israeli bombardment, as the Israeli occupation continues to block the entry of caravans and reconstruction materials." Maha Hussaini

 Maha Hussaini

@MahaGaza

 

As a violent windstorm has battered Gaza since yesterday evening, a wall collapsed on a displaced family in western Gaza City overnight, killing two Palestinians: 72-year-old Muhammad Hamouda and 40-year-old Doaa Hamouda. Several others were injured. 

 

This morning, a one-year-old baby died from the cold in Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip. 

 

Almost all of those killed or who die from the cold are forcibly displaced Palestinians whose homes were destroyed by Israeli bombardment, as the Israeli occupation continues to block the entry of caravans and reconstruction materials.

https://x.com/MahaGaza/status/2010989159192711228/photo/2 

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Bethlehem, Palestine today ... Christmas Day 2025... "The birthplace of Jesus - Bethlehem, [Palestine] 🇵🇸 - is walled off from the world by Israel, shrunk to less than 15% of its size by land grab & isolated from its twin city Jerusalem. Yet Christmas for Palestinians is a joyous national holiday of hope in justice. Merry Christmas to all." Nour Odeh

Bethlehem, Palestine today

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Nour Odeh #FreePalestine

@nour_odeh

The birthplace of Jesus - Bethlehem, [Palestine]  - is walled off from the world by Israel, shrunk to less than 15% of its size by land grab & isolated from its twin city Jerusalem. Yet Christmas for Palestinians is a joyous national holiday of hope in justice. Merry Christmas to all.

https://x.com/nour_odeh/status/2003854280357249049

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Poem A Day - Academy of American Poets @POETSorg Mosab Abu Toha's [You were so small in my hands]

Academy of American Poets

@POETSorg

[You were so small in my hands]

Mosab Abu Toha

You were so small in my hands
no shrapnel could hit you,
but the dust and
smoke of the bomb
rushed into your lungs.
No need for any gauze.
They just closed your eyes.
No need for any shroud.
You were already
in your swaddle blanket.

Copyright © 2025 by Mosab Abu Toha. Originally published in Poem-a-Day on March 13, 2025, by the Academy of American Poets.

@mosababutoha

#PoemADay

 

 

Mosab Abu Toha is a Palestinian poet and founder of the Edward Said Library, Gaza’s only English-language library. He is a former visiting poet at Harvard’s department of comparative literature. Photo credit: Mohamed Mehdy

 poems

Year	Title
2025	[You were so small in my hands]
2025	[Gaza has become a funeral home]
2022	Discoveries
2022	Leaving Childhood Behind
2022	What is Home?
2022	Displaced
2022	Mouth Still Open

Meet Sidra Matar. She is six months old. A resident of Gaza. She was suffering from pneumonia. Yesterday she died due to lack of oxygen. Her ventilator stopped working as a result of a power outage caused by Israel's war on Gaza

Meet Sidra Matar. She is six months old. A resident of Gaza. She was suffering from pneumonia. Admitted in Kamal Adwan hospital. The doctors had to connect her to the ventilator. Yesterday she died due to lack of oxygen. The ventilator stopped working as a result of a power outage.

 

The sacred between mother and child captured in two images across time... Palestine past & Palestine present.

Sacred Motherhood

 

Today's Nativity scene inspired by Israeli Bombing Campaigns 2023 #Gaza #Bethlehem, #Palestine #Christmas #Christ

 

Photos: Lutheran Christ Church in #Bethlehem, #Palestine

#Christmas

#Gaza

 

This is the nativity scene at the Christmas Lutheran Church in Bethlehem this year. It is based off pastor Munther Isaac’s sermon, “God is Under the Rubble.” Please read if you have not yet:

https://sojo.net/articles/god-under-rubble-gaza

 

 

GAZA UPDATE: More than 6,600 Palestinian children in Gaza have been killed by Israeli forces since October 7, according to the Governmental Media Office. 

 

Thousands more are still missing under the rubble.

Palestine- artist unknown

 

Christmas night, watercolors, painted by Sliman Mansour for Palestine