Two years of genocide

Two years have passed since a war that neither ceasefires nor international resolutions have managed to end.

Two years of fire, hunger, and slow death, endured by Palestinians in Gaza as they faced genocide head on.

Since the very start, journalists in Gaza have been the clearest target of Israeli occupation missiles.

Hundreds of journalists and media workers have been killed, most of them while carrying out their field duties, with cameras and microphones in their hands.

Others were killed in their homes alongside their families and children.

This was not a ‘military mistake’ as the occupation claims, but a deliberate policy aimed at silencing Palestinian voices.

Israel did not only kill journalists, but also attempted to assassinate the truth, aiming to keep its narrative as the only one alive in the international arena.

Yet, cameras did not disappear beneath the rubble, and the lenses and pens of Gaza’s journalists never stopped documenting what Israel sought to erase.

Cultural genocide

Even education in Gaza was not spared.

Major universities such as Al-Aqsa, Al-Azhar, and the Islamic University, along with UNRWA-run schools and hundreds of other educational institutions, were either completely destroyed or forced to shut down due to severe damage.

Thousands of students lost their classrooms, and entire libraries were reduced to ashes.

Prominent scholars were not spared either. Many academics, teachers, and intellectuals were targeted, in a clear attempt to eliminate minds and erase knowledge in Gaza.

Targeting them was part of a project that aimed to make them believe in the depth of their consciousness that they are defeated.

The aim, then, was not to fight Palestinian resistance.

Attacks on medical personnel

In every war, doctors are a guardian of life, but in Gaza, they have themselves become targets of killing, arrest, and abuse.

Dozens of doctors and nurses have been killed while performing their humanitarian duties, while others have been arrested and subjected to brutal mistreatment inside Israeli prisons.

Israeli soldiers stormed hospitals, shelled wards above the heads of patients, and prevented the entry of medicines and medical equipment, forcing doctors to work under fire and without anesthetic.

Despite this, doctors continued to resist with primitive means, in a battle where they faced death and arrest with determination to save lives until the very last moment.

Even basic cleaning supplies were banned from entering Gaza during the two years of genocide under the pretext of ‘dual use’.

Skin diseases spread among children, women, and the elderly in the overcrowded displacement camps.

Daily life turned into a struggle against disease and lack of personal hygiene amid the absence of treatment, water, and hygiene necessities.

Repeated displacement

For two years, the residents of Gaza have been living out of open suitcases, fleeing from one bombing to another, carrying what remains of their memories and photos of their loved ones.

They have been displaced multiple times, from the north to the south toward Al-Mawasi, caught in an endless cycle of displacement.

There are no safe places and no stable life.

Palestinian heritage has not been spared from the bombing. Old mosques, churches, and archaeological sites have all been targeted or damaged.

Israel has not been content with erasing the present; it has sought to destroy memory, to eliminate every trace that attests to the deep history and roots of the Palestinian people in this land.

Silence equals complicity

Two years have passed while the world watches the Israeli massacre in Gaza without taking any real action.

Statements of ‘deep concern’ have not stopped the bombardment, and United Nations resolutions have remained mere ink on paper.

The international community has failed a simple humanitarian test: to stand with the victims, not the killers.

Its silence was not neutrality but a form of complicity, as it allowed the continuation of the genocide without accountability or punishment.

Reports have documented British aircraft conducting reconnaissance flights over Gaza prior to carrying out major massacres.

These sorties, described as ‘surveillance operations’ to search for captives, preceded devastating Israeli strikes, making Britain an active partner in crime.

History repeats itself: from the Balfour Declaration to supporting the modern genocide, the British role remains present at every stage of attempts to uproot Palestinians from their land.

When bread became a dream

The Israeli occupation completely closed the crossings and prevented the entry of food and fuel.

Essential supplies ran out in the markets, and livelihoods deteriorated to an unprecedented level.

The people of Gaza were forced to grind animal feed to make bitter-tasting bread, and families shared just one meal a day.

Children suffered from wasting, women from anemia, and the elderly from dehydration and malnutrition.

Famine has been a slow weapon aimed at breaking people’s will and forcing them to surrender.

But in Gaza, it has turned into a new battle of resilience, as the people continue to share the little food they have, holding firmly to their motto: “We die standing, and we will not bow to hunger.”

‘Peace’ in the ruins of Gaza

At the height of the suffering, US president Donald Trump’s plan to determine the ‘future of Gaza’ was proposed, revealing a political mindset that sees Palestinians only as a crisis to be managed, not a cause to be resolved.

The suggestion of Tony Blair, whose role in the Iraq invasion was catastrophic, as the ‘interim governor’ of Gaza signifies a continuation of the path of political humiliation following military annihilation.

But after two years of genocide, Gaza will continue to pulse with life.

Today, it stands as the memory of the world that cannot be erased, and the conscience of humanity that continues to remind us that justice may be delayed, but it will never disappear.