OPINIONS

Mon 26 May 2025 9:17 am - Jerusalem Time

In the final judgment!

Ibrahim Melhem

Ibrahim Melhem

Opinion Writer

The earth has become too narrow for the displaced due to the repeated departures, in a series of killings, starvation, displacement, and the cramming of people, all of them, into the last corridor. It is as if the late Mahmoud Darwish was seeing with the sensitivity of a poet and the imagination of a visionary what the displaced are enduring today in Hellfire, when he said: “The earth has become too narrow for us, cramming us into the last corridor.”

The poems of poets and the eloquent sermons of orators are no longer able to encompass the pain of suffering and the bleeding of wounds open over the long term, until they overflowed and flooded the exhausted hearts burdened with the pain of loss and the pain of hunger that has become more deadly than the bombs distributed by planes and drones over their heads, as they crawl with their children on empty stomachs from the severity of the famine that has afflicted them, bitten their intestines, and stolen the fruits of their hearts from their hands, like the child Mustafa, whom his parents bid farewell yesterday in solemn silence.

Television networks broadcast footage yesterday of hundreds of tents leaning against each other, pitched along the beach, to the point of overflowing the port, which has become a shelter for nearly a million displaced people who have fled Gaza and the north, under fire.

In the final gathering place, the only refuge left for those fleeing hell is the sea, while "bubbles or cages crammed with food" are set up as traps to lure the starving to the south, walking dozens of kilometers, after which they are subjected to blackmail and given the choice between death by starvation or displacement!

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