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Omar from Gaza 𓂆 Profile picture
@OmarHamadD
Mar 18 • 1 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
I am currently living in Beit Hanoun, and my house is only 2 kilometers away from the tanks brutally shelling us right now. Bombing is everywhere. We are living in a state of unimaginable fear and terror. The entire town is destroyed — nothing remains but rubble.

I don’t know whether to fear for myself, for our children, or for my elderly mother and father. My heart feels like it’s about to burst out of my chest.

I’ve often wished I had been martyred at the start of the war so I wouldn’t have to endure all of this.

Maybe this time we won’t survive. But honestly, I would rather we all be bombed together, so none of us has to suffer the unbearable pain of losing the other — a pain that has rooted itself deep within us.

This life is utterly unfair and cruel beyond imagination.

I want to end with a message to everyone watching us being killed live on air: remember that we have dreams just like you, and we love life just as you do. But it seems our lives are meant only for death.

Fuck this vile world.

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Jul 17, 2024
Horrific testimonies from the massacre of Mawasi Khan Younis committed by Israel on July 13th:

1_ "My son asked me to bring him his severed leg so he could say goodbye to it. Based on his request, I returned in the afternoon to check the place, but I couldn't find his leg." ..+
2_ "I was carrying an empty pot, heading to the nearby soup kitchen from my tent to get some food for my family. Suddenly, the color of the sky changed, and daylight was replaced by darkness and dust. I fainted briefly, and every time I tried to get up,..+
I saw feet running around me. It felt like I had forgotten how to walk."

3_ "I felt that life was suddenly filled with hungry ghosts, ready to bite into your body, your head, your hand, your foot. And if none of that happens, they might erase you forever." ..+
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Jun 15, 2024
This story is different from all the other stories I've told. My cousin, the legend Hidaya Hamad. She was the volunteer manager at the Red Crescent in Khan Yunis, where the building was sheltering around 15,000 displaced people..+
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Every night before bed, she would take a round among the displaced people and ask if they needed anything, fulfilling their needs. She was the first to go to the Rafah border crossing to secure humanitarian aid for the people of Gaza..+ Image
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Massacre

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