It's not a war

It's not a war

Before October 7th, 2023 was the deadliest year on record in the region. At least 493 Palestinians were killed, 110 of them children with a minimum of 12,500 injured. In mid 2023 Mohammed al-Tamimi died after being shot by Occupation forces as his father drove him to a birthday party. Mohammed was 3 years old. No criminal investigation was ever opened. Before 7th October, there were at least 7,500 Palestinians from the region being held hostage. I know Western Media likes to refer to these hostages as prisoners but being held without trial, with no access to legal representation, being forced to sign statements in a language you don’t understand, and being the recipient of torture sounds like hostages to me.

In the last 2 months, 40,000 Palestinians have been displaced as the brutality in the region continues unchecked in the biggest displacement since 1967 when the region was first occupied.

Above is the West Bank.

Not Gaza.

It is the West Bank where there are no white Israeli Hostages and no evil Hamas.

(Sources: OCHA (United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs) and BTSELEM (The Israeli Information Centre for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories.)

It’s the West Bank where there are no excuses to blame every single atrocity known to humankind apart from the obvious – ethnic cleansing, land grabbing, and resource stealing.

It’s not a war

It’s not a war,

or a conflict,

or something that

has ever been

equal-sided,

nor fair, or right or just.

On one side,

it is a genocidal

land grab,

and on the other,

the most desperate

fight for freedom

and liberation.