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“Do you wish to return home”? Letter to Israel of the Zionist Settlers
“These leaflets were dropped on Gaza’s starving population today. It’s one more clear and cruel way Israel is telling the Palestinians in Gaza that they are being deliberately targeted, starved, and uprooted.”
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“Imperial Envoy” (Mr Blinken) Back in Middle East
And each grim day after day / the people in Gaza / keep on dying
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War Came (to Gaza)
War came / and took the sleep from the bed / took the food from the children’s mouths / took the doctors and the hospitals / and burned them all alive.
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Palestinian Poet calls for All People to Take-Up the Pen (for Gaza)
Mosab Abu Toha, palestinian poet founder of the Edward Said Library in Gaza, has just issued a call for people to rise up and prove that the pen is and will be – mightier than the sword
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Go Tell Your Poem (to the children of Gaza)
this world / is too old for poetry / or too young to heed its warning, / or too heartbroken now / to grieve its exiled ghosts
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Gaza/Israel : nuevo voto en Asamblea General de Naciones Unidas
“More than 5,300 Palestinian children have been reportedly killed in just 46 days – that is over 115 a day, every day, for weeks and weeks. Based on these figures, children account for forty per cent of the deaths in Gaza. This is unprecedented
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Gaza/Israel: António Guterres activa Artículo 99 de la Carta de Naciones Unidas
Por vez primera desde muchos años, el Secretario General de Naciones Unidas se ha dirigido al Consejo de Seguridad haciendo uso de las atribuciones que le asigna el Artículo 99 de la Carta de Naciones Unidas
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The writer and academic Refaat Alareer killed yesterday by Israeli bombs
The last thing he wrote to his friends was: “The situation is very desolate, we don’t even have water… I only have my pen, I will throw it at the occupying soldiers if they invade, even if it were to be the last thing I’ll do”
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A Poem for Gaza
In my dream (which is not really a dream at all!) / i watch the incinerated corpses / of words and orphaned Palestinian children / hanging from these cruel mouths / after the bloody soldiers have left and / taken their rage and poison with them
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“The Bird was Crying…”. An Unwritten (GAZA) Poem on an (ISRAELI) Bomb
…but as you can see the house is gone, now we have to leave too we’re all going to leave, we are leaving we have no refuge now. Ahmad speaks, from the ruins of Nuseirat refugee camp, Gaza
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