In recent weeks, it has become common for some countries, including the United States, to drop a few parcels of aid. I do not understand why they are behaving this way towards us. They want to show the whole world, especially their people, that they are helping Gaza, but in reality they are humiliating the people of Gaza.
This is how Rami Abu Jamous – who writes his memoirs in this space allocated to him on the Orian 21 website – summarized the last chapter of his daily life and the lives of the residents of Gaza in Rafah, who are stuck in a small, poverty-stricken, overcrowded enclave, after the founder of the “Gaza Press” website was forced to… (GazaPress), who had been providing assistance and translation to Western journalists, had to leave his apartment in Gaza City with his wife and two-and-a-half-year-old son, Walid, and now shares a two-bedroom apartment with another family.
After referring to the heavy Israeli bombing on Saturday evening in Rafah, during which the Abu Aina family in Khan Yunis lost 13 of its members, Rami Abu Jamous said that throwing food with umbrellas is like feeding dogs, so that pieces are thrown at them, and the dogs rush to eat them.
There is a famine situation in the northern Gaza Strip, where children are dying of malnutrition, and then they come and drop us a few bags of flour and rice. It is a humiliation – says Rami Abu Jamous – and the Israelis know this, and that is why they gave the green light, because they are the ones who give permission for this. And they are the ones who determine where the planes drop this humanitarian aid. Everything is done by the Israelis.
Insulting way
The writer says, “What I do not understand is that these countries, instead of providing assistance in a dignified manner, do so in this humiliating manner. We do not need this assistance if they are mired in humiliation.” I do not understand countries such as Canada, France, and the United States wanting to participate in this type of operation, and they are considered “superpowers.” Can they not provide food to the people of Gaza in a dignified manner?
The writer pointed out that everyone was quick to pass goods to Israel with dignity, when the Houthis prevented its ships from passing through the Red Sea, and that all countries provide aid and weapons to Ukraine in a dignified manner, wondering why they do not do so when it comes to the Palestinians. Should we always add humiliation to the Palestinians? ? Although there is no difference between Ukraine and Palestine, “both are occupied, the first by Russia and the second by Israel,” as he put it.
As for the United States, the matter is different, because it provides the Israelis with the most advanced weapons to bring them down on our heads – the writer says – and at the same time, it inflicts humiliation on us under the pretext of humanitarian aid. I do not know if this is schizophrenia or blind hypocrisy in this world?
The writer concluded by saying that whoever wants to help the Gazans must do so in a dignified way, because they have been subjected to humiliation enough, under the occupation, and they lost their loved ones, and lost their homes, and their jobs, so they have nothing left but dignity, and they do not accept that it be taken from them, “We prefer death to death.” We accept a piece of bread that tastes dipped in humiliation.”
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2024-03-05 09:23:01
