The Israeli government’s evermore overt aggression may well lead to the outbreak of a popular Palestinian uprising
I write from Gaza City in the besieged Gaza Strip, where I was born and have lived most of my life, and which is once again being bombarded by Israeli forces.
On Tuesday 9 May, myself and other residents of the strip awoke terrified, in mid-sleep. 40 Israeli warplanes had launched a military assault. The attack killed 12, including women and children; among them, the doctor Jamal Abu Khaswan, his son and his wife.
Their daughter woke from the blast to find she had lost both her parents and her brother. The following day, five-year-old Muhammad Dawas died after suffering an acute heart attack, induced by terror from the sound of the missiles targeting his neighbours’ house.
The chronic fear that afflicts children and other residents of Gaza as a result of continuous Israeli attack does not stop with a cessation in bombing. Rather, it remains with them in dreams
