Remember Safa Joudeh? An earlier post had her first article describing her feelings after the first day of bombing on Gaza. This article is her latest, 10 days after. It is a different Safa speaking, a stronger one.
The article will give you goose bumps and bring you to tears. It captures the raw reality on the ground – the reality of a devestated population that is willing to fight to the very last breath. This is not Hamas or Jihad speaking, this is a Western-educated, young, Gazan woman.
The only way to end the resistance in Gaza is to kill every last man, woman, child, plant, and stone there. May Allah (swt) give them the strength and will to continue resisting and fighting for their freedom.
Excerpts below:
Israel has come into our homes, is fighting us in our streets and is expressing its brutality against us in full force. How are we supposed to react?
All Palestinian factions have united and are out facing the enemy, using all of their military capabilities that they collectively have. Although these capabilities are incomparable to the military strength exerted by Israel, yet it has made us more certain than ever that Palestinians will fight to the very end to protect their own. It has shown us that resistance, courage and love are an integral part of the Palestinian identity that will never change despite all the hardships we endure. It has given us a moral boost, which comes at a time when we need it most.
The Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades of The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the al-Quds Brigades of the Islamic Jihad movement, The Izzedin al-Qassam brigades of Hamas, the Salah al-Din Brigades of the Popular Resistance Committees, the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades of Fatah have all come together as one united front and at a high, almost affirmed risk of peril, are out protecting our streets and our homes, ready to die if that means preventing the death of one more helpless child. We are united and we have accepted our fate recurrently, but the people of Gaza — almost 80 percent of them refugees — will not be massacred and displaced yet again by people from the outside guided by tyranny and greed.
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At the moment, and in the midst of the aggression, it is hard to make sense of the current situation or make future predictions. It’s hard to come to grips with the numbers and the extent of our losses. It’s hard even to remember a time when basic necessities such as food, water, warmth and daylight weren’t a luxury. At this point, bare human instinct is at work — the need to protect your loved ones, the need to ensure shelter and the instinct of fight or flight. We have fled for too long, Gaza is our last refuge and our home after we were displaced from what is now called Israel. All this happened 60 years ago. What more could they want? We have nowhere left to go. They have disregarded every single international law there is. Now is the time to defend ourselves, now is the time for resistance.
