(FYI: EuroNews, March 31: Bodies of 15 aid workers discovered in southern Gaza mass grave
Haaretz, April 1: UN Recovers 15 Aid Workers' Bodies in Gaza, Say Some Found Bound and Shot
Rescue teams say some victims had their hands tied and were shot at close range, suggesting they were executed.
please bury me
with no casket, no prayers
face down, away
from this shrapnel-filled world:
the note in an aid worker's hand
Haaretz, April 3: Israeli Strike on Gaza City School Leaves 27 Dead, at Least 70 Wounded
a girl convulsing
on the bloodstained classroom floor
smell of Gaza's air
slanted moonlight
on a half-collapsed school wall
chalk poppies bloom
FYI: "The Palestinian poppy (Anemone coronaria) is a non-official but more recognizable national symbol of Palestine
And Haaretz, April 8: The killing of 15 humanitarian workers in Rafah sparked global outrage – but on Israeli TV, the real tragedy was the damage to Israel's public image
Following the global uproar, a few Israeli channels grudgingly mentioned the incident, tucking it into the margins of their broadcasts. The focus, of course, wasn't the possibility that Israeli soldiers had committed a horrific war crime, but rather the "damage to Israel's image" caused by the IDF's shifting accounts.
Against the Drowning Noise of Other Words, CLXXII: "aid workers bound and shot")
anything new
on the other side of this wall
of indifference ...
15 aid workers bound
and shot at close range)
Against the Drowning Noise of Other Words, CLXX: "Gazans are Humans?"
too much to ask YOU
to see Gazans as humans?
50, 000 deaths
silenced, forgotten, buried
under the weight of daily life
FYI: Israel's oldest daily now sanctioned by the Israeli government, Haaretz, March 24: 50,000 Palestinians Have Been Killed in Gaza: This Is How It Happened, Day by Day
And Haaretz, March 24: Announcement That Death Toll Surpassed 50,000 Didn't Faze Anyone, Not Even in Gaza
Even Gazans aren't preoccupied by the number of dead these days. They're busy with questions of day-to-day survival: Will Israeli attacks become as widespread as they were before the cease-fire? Will all of Gaza be reoccupied? And who will die today or tomorrow?
Added: Against the Drowning Noise of Other Words, CLXXI: "crowded shelter"
crowded shelter
layer within layer
of hushed silence
FYI: Haaretz, March 27: In One of the Gaza War's Most Horrifying Nights, the Israeli Army Killed Nearly 300 Women and Children
the IDF and the Shin Bet focused this time on civilian and political targets and less on the military wing of Hamas.
