Issued by the Catholic Center for Studies and Media - Jordan. Editor-in-chief Fr. Rif'at Bader - موقع أبونا abouna.org
From beneath the rubble, we call to you.
From the heart of tragedy, we cry out.
We are the children of Palestine, the people of Gaza, abandoned by all the nations of the world, betrayed by governments that defied their own people who stood in solidarity with us.
We are Gaza’s children, we are its women, its elderly, its disabled, its sick.
We are all those left to be prey to killing, hunger, thirst, disease, displacement, and sleeping in the open.
We are the people of the stricken Strip, whose present and future have been destroyed, turned into victims of genocide and ethnic cleansing.
We are those forsaken by the world, our wounds deepened by the deep state that sees our land only as a source of tourism and energy, investing in it over the torn bodies of our children, ripped apart by its missiles.
O blind, deaf, and mute world,
Do you not hear the screams of Gaza’s wounded?
Do you not hear the moans of its sick and hungry?
Do you not see the growing daily number of victims of starvation?
Surely you are complicit, an accomplice in the genocide against an innocent people whose only “crime” was defending themselves and repelling the occupier.
If you are not a direct participant in the conspiracy, then your silence, your willful blindness, and your indifference make you one.
You are a mute devil.
A hypocrite who moves to protect endangered animal species, but has no problem with the extermination of human beings.
What values drive you?
What justification will you give to the Almighty on the Day of Reckoning, when you stand in His presence?
Is it not time to act, as the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza reaches its peak?
Or are you waiting for the land to be emptied by death and hunger, so your financial fleets can arrive and invest?
Break the barriers. Defy the rules.
The people of Gaza are dying of hunger. Necessity permits the forbidden.
Break the siege imposed on Gaza.
Provide it with what it needs, or the curse of your present and future generations will haunt you until the end of time.