DISPLACED Palestinians live in make-shift tents in blood-stained Gaza and endure unimaginable hardships. Their untold tale of anguish and suffering defies description.

They are stripped of their dignity, honour and life itself, and forced into an endless cycle of fear, chaos and despair. They are made to flee from one crumbled shelter to another, struggling for mere survival.

The so-called evacuation orders by the Israel Defence Forcess (IDF) are not a measure of safety and survival, but a calculated trap for massacring unarmed, emaciated and starving civilians. Death looms as an ever-present shadow, claiming innumerable lives daily and reducing entire families to memories.

Apartments, schools, hospitals, and makeshift shelters are reduced to rubble in an instant, leaving only the haunting silence of lives erased. The Palestinians are being eliminated by bombs, bullets, hunger, thirst, disease and trauma.

This relentless bloodshed, fuelled by advanced American weapons, unfolds in full view of a world that largely remains silent. The apathy of the international community and the Muslim world comp-ounds the tragedy.

The Zionist forces’ thirst for levelling Gaza, killing generations, and erasing the future of Palestinian children is insatiable. Their sophisticated weapons and precision technology leave nothing but a trail of death and devastation. However, they have failed to achieve their objectives.

The courage and resilience of the oppressed have defeated the forces of oppression. The charisma, cause and spirit of Hamas live on, and have been furthered by the Israeli atrocities and inhuman cruelties.

The global conscience calls for an end to the ongoing slaughter and savagery. It is imperative to pay heed to the global calls and cries for a ceasefire. No doubt, only through dialogue and understanding can lasting peace be achieved, if ever.

Qamer Soomro
Shikarpur

Published in Dawn, December 25th, 2024