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OPINIONS

Mon 13 Jan 2025 10:11 am - Jerusalem Time

The genocide may stop but!

Perhaps the war will stop! Perhaps the two parties will reach an agreement in the coming days, and perhaps the ongoing negotiations will lead to results agreed upon by both parties, but who will restore the map of places to what they were; the streets, neighborhoods, and communities; who will restore the houses that were destroyed; and rebuild everything that was left behind by the war of extermination; and what will be the state of Gaza on the day after this extermination? Who will return the martyred sons to their mothers and the husbands to their wives, who will heal the wounds and reconnect the amputees and their dreams, and who these days have burdened with wounds and spontaneous bleeding; and what will be the state of Gaza on the day after this extermination? Like a bereaved city, deeply wounded, but it lives, for cities do not die. Or like a city that has been burned by the fires of war and bombs, turning it into hell, but it tries to survive, for cities do not perish.


This is the state of Gaza today, after 465 days of war of extermination, in which nothing was spared, not even trees, stones, or people. It has turned into a scorched land that is uninhabitable and ineligible for human habitation. Will the upcoming truce or deal be able to save Gaza from the hell it is living in? People are homeless and have no shelter other than the open air. They live in tents that do not protect from the cold and rain, and without medicine or treatment after the destruction of the hospitals in the Strip, many of which have been completely out of service. There is a severe shortage of food, the destruction of the infrastructure, floods of sewage, and thousands of tons of garbage and other waste that spread diseases and kill people.


This is the state of Gaza today, after thousands of tons of explosives and gunpowder fell on it, and after the war gnawed away at all the reasons for life in it, destroying universities, schools and institutes, destroying the main hospitals and health and medical centers, and completely exterminating families and erasing them from the records, and the features and geography of residential neighborhoods in cities and camps disappeared, and heritage sites and places of worship were obliterated under the rubble of the bombing, and today it is without ministries, institutions or organizations, and without factories and companies, and without water and electricity lines, and it is in this miserable reality and what the war of extermination left on it until today.


It is true that stopping the war of extermination is the most important thing, and it is what the people of Gaza need, and what they look forward to all the time, but equally they need a lot the next day, amidst the devastation and destruction they are experiencing, which requires international, regional and Arab coordination, and also calls for an effective Palestinian role in ending the division and national unity, on a clear and declared basis that is not open to interpretation or procrastination, and whose only reference is the Palestine Liberation Organization, and without that we will remain revolving in the orbit of division that will not benefit anyone, but rather harms the future of the Palestinian cause, which is being ravaged by a series of challenges and threats.

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