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Publication: The Bulletin, , Emporia State University , Emporia, KS
Everyday I open up Instagram or TikTok, and the posts I see are always the same yet always so much worse than the last.
I am met with photos and videos that shake me to my core.
I am met with mothers and fathers crying over the lifeless bodies of their children, bloodied Palestinians missing limbs, dismembered body parts, and bags with dead bodies inside.
I hear the voice of trapped six-year-old Hind Rajab pleading for help after her family members were shot and killed in their car by Israeli forces. I later learn that Hind and the medics sent to rescue her were killed too.
Just the other day, I opened Instagram and saw photos of seven-year-old Sidra Hassouna, a young girl that had her entire life ahead of her, hanging from a wall, killed by an Israeli airstrike that ripped the legs from her body.
The day that I’m writing this, Feb. 13, I saw a mother and son covered in blood awaiting treatment at Kuwaiti Hospital after sustaining injuries from an Israeli airstrike in Rafah.
I am terrified for the people in Gaza every single day, and every day I am reminded that we have failed them.
In 130 days, at least 28,576 Palestinians have been killed by Israel in the violent bombardment occurring in the Gaza Strip. Nearly 2 million Palestinians have been forcibly displaced and an estimated...