I was thinking about how to commemorate this day.
What to do, what to say, what to share.
I’ve written so much about different reports and UN announcements related to the children of Gaza that I wanted to commemorate this day with something a bit more touching. Perhaps a bit more appropriate for this solemn occasion.
These are the things that came to mind.
I start with a speech that has never left my mind (or my heart).
The collective guilt we carry is real, just like that collective grief and rage over what’s happening.
I have never been both so out of words and filled with things to share my whole life. All I can continue saying is we have to keep on moving forward.
Not for ourselves, our self-image, or even our sanity.
It’s for those children to whom we owe it.
I want to encourage you to donate to one or several of these organisations that I, too, support:
Defense for Children International – Palestine
United Palestinian Appeal
Palestine Children’s Relief Fund
I have selected some visuals from my project in case you’d like to download and share them with your community today:
PS. The US has just vetoed another UN resolution on Gaza ceasefire this week. The ones who support the mass slaughter of children deserve nothing less than a moral hell and to end their lives in prison as they’re sent there by the judges in the Hague.
As always: stay strong, check on others, and keep your heart open.
❤️💔❤️
Justina
Find all my work on Palestine here.
Some articles – with videos and podcast episodes inside – you might want to explore:
Kamala’s Political Gaslighting as Children Are Murdered in Hospitals
On Another School Massacre in Gaza And Keeping Important Things Important
Have You Seen The New CBS News Piece on Children of Gaza?
On Israel’s Destruction of Young Palestinian Lives: Controversy Is Not in Speaking Out, Controversy Is in The Silence
Israel to Be Put on UN’s Blacklist of Countries Who Harm Children in Conflicts: What Does It Mean?
Find my episode on an important UN announcement that came out earlier this year here:
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