Zionism and similar malicious constructs not only manipulate and distort human thought, but also deform solid structures like geography through similar means. The relationship between people and their land is profoundly different from what these sinister ideologies imagine. Take Gaza, for example — which entered the world’s conscience due to some of the most barbaric massacres in history carried out by Zionists. Gaza is not, in reality, a simple rectangle on a map. There is no such rectangular shaped piece of land in Gaza. Gaza is a ‘home’ — a living, breathing space that has for thousands of years connected its people with Jerusalem, the West Bank, Jordan, and even more distant places. The current rectangular borders are an artificial nightmare imposed by the Zionists: a rootless, forced separation from the human essence.

The Zionist terror transplanted from Europe and other parts of the world first tried to uproot the native people of Palestine who rooted in the land through massacres, deception, and fear. Yet the bond between people and land is something alien to those frozen in history, unable to comprehend the depth of such a connection. Gaza is, in fact, a massive refugee camp, designed by the sick minds of Zionism to confine tens of thousands of Palestinians forcibly displaced from various parts of Palestine. Later, after removing Jewish settlements placed there, Gaza was encircled with barbed wire, military fortresses, and towering walls — turning it into the largest open-air prison in the world. Now, failing to tear apart the resilient ties between the people and their land, Zionists resort to unimaginable brutality: bombardments, starvation, thirst, and sheer inhumanity, hoping, in a final act of desperation, to erase this bond entirely.

The story of Gaza — this beacon of resilience rooted in the soil — must be told. Through art, literature, cinema, music, science — through every possible medium — we must speak of what humanity has created here: meaning, ideals, dignity, existence itself. This genocide and what happened in the 77 years leading up to it in Gaza and Palestine are one of the brightest and heart wrenching stories of the struggle of becoming and remaining human that belongs to humanity.

There are thousands and millions of nameless heroes, victims without a doubt -each of them deserving to be remembered, told to the next generations of humanity. Today I want to share with you the story of one such hero: Dr. Abdulkerim Al-Raqab.

Dr. Abdulkerim Al-Rakeb

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