Against the Drowning Noise of Other Words, CCIII: "loose skin over bone"
a dull-eyed baby
with loose skin over bone ...
red glow of Gazan skies
(reprinted in Haikuniverse, July 26, 2025)
Added: Against the Drowning Noise of Other Words, CCIV: "the luckiest one"
her gaunt face
swollen and covered in burns ...
this one-legged girl
the luckiest one while others are
buried under the smoky rubble
FYI: "Israel's oldest daily, Haaretz," which was was sanctioned by the Israeli government on Nov. 24, 2024
July 21, 2025: While Israelis Are Watching TV Cook-offs, Israel Continues to Kill and Starve Multitudes of Gazans
Hala Arafat cried out to be rescued from the rubble for hours; the IDF targeted anyone who tried to help. An hour away in Tel Aviv, life goes on as normal as the Air Force carries out another war crime.
July 23, Opinion: For Israel's Top Court, Human Rights End at the Gaza Border
Such issues include starvation, denial of medical care, bans on Red Cross visits to security prisoners, barring journalists' access to Gaza, forcing civilians to move from place to place and environmental degradation, to name a few. The High Court has consistently chosen not to address such offenses or to restrain the state despite the many petitions submitted over the past 18 months by human rights organizations.
And Al Jazeera, July 20: 18 in Gaza die from starvation in one day amid Israeli blockade. Al Jazeera, July 22 2025: At least 15 people, including four children, have died due to famine and malnutrition in Gaza during the past 24 hours.
Added: Against the Drowning Noise of Other Words, CCV: "the entire town encaged"
the West Bank town
encaged with barbed wire ...
the red glow
of a soldier's Marlboro
against the borderless night sky
FYI: +972 Magazine, July 14 2025: The suffocation of Sinjil (close to Ramallah)
Encaging the West Bank town with barbed wire, Israel has cut off residents’ land and left others exposed to settler attacks, including a recent lynching.
Earlier this year, the Israeli army erected a towering barbed wire fence that has turned the town into an open-air prison. Built along Route 60, the West Bank’s main north-south highway, the fence has virtually sealed residents off from the outside world and severed them from thousands of dunams of farmland, while leaving those on the other side of the fence totally exposed to settler lynchings like last week’s deadly attack.
Added: Against the Drowning Noise of Other Words, CCVI: "stop the war on children"
meter-by-meter photos
of skeletal Gazan babies
and sacks of flour ....
a man chants into a megaphone,
stop the war on children
