13/10/2025
Another ceasefire in Gaza. Praying this will be the one that will hold - but I have to admit I don’t feel optimistic. Israel has made it clear from Day 1 what its aims were - they wanted revenge, yes, and they claimed they wanted their hostages back though their actions denied this claim, but what they really wanted to destroy the will of the people of Gaza, to kill as many of them as possible and drive the rest away so they could take their land. Zionists are all pointing their fingers and asking why people aren’t celebrating this ceasefire. It’s because we don’t trust Israel - that’s why. For nearly 80 years they have had exactly the same aim and they have done exactly the same thing - they want the land, all of it, from the river to the sea, and they want the Palestinian people gone.
That aim has not changed despite this ceasefire so while we are happy for the respite it provides to the battered bodies and souls of the people of Gaza we can never really celebrate until Palestine is free and the people there can all live in one free and democratic state - a state that treats every one of its citizens with dignity and respect, a state where everyone who lives there can be free from oppression, injustice, and brutality.
I don’t know who took this photo but it encapsulates so much about Gaza, about the resilience of the Palestinian people, about the horror of finding yourself in the gun-sights of power, about the terrible, terrible toll Israel’s expansionist, racist, supremacist goals have taken on all those who get in its way.
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