Living through a genocide is deeply traumatic.

My beloved sister Alaa and her family have been killed by the IDF, as have my cousins Mahmoud, Mohammed and Hatem.

Yesterday, my uncle’s home was bombed. He has nothing to do with Hamas. The remains of his home sits metres from the entrance to my father’s home where we both walked not so long ago.

My personal losses are just one example of lives impacted by Israel’s slaughter of 60,000 Palestinians in Gaza.

My family cannot find food. They call me. I cannot help them as they starve to death over whatsapp.

Israel denies what the world can see, that increasing numbers of deaths are occurring because of Israeli-engineered starvation.

In response, an increasing number of Western nations — including Australia — have said that they will recognise Palestine at the UN in New York in September.

By September there will be little left to........

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