So I havenât talked about this on main before, but the situation in South Gaza has gotten so horrifying that Iâm p much throwing caution to the wind to desperately plead for eyes on this. Iâm raising awareness about stories from activists in Gaza right now, including one of our own.
My lovely, wonderful friend Swin (aka tumblr user @combaticon) was deployed as a volunteer medic to a Gaza hospital on the 9th.
When the bloodshed started, she heard they needed extra hands in Gaza, she spoke Arabic and had the training, and she went.
Iâve been in contact with her throughout. Sheâs so incredibly brave it takes my breath away. My heart bleeds for these children sheâs taking care of and how resilient they are is⊠astonishing.
Swin and these poor people have been under siege for so long, and theyâre in desperate need of critical supplies. They have to filter water through their clothes, and itâs getting dangerously cold. Foods finally been getting through, but thereâs not enough blankets and jackets to go around and thereâs no fuel for the generators.
Their comrades in the West Bank have been completely pushed out by settler thugs. Itâs incredibly unsafe to even be doing humanitarian work for Palestinians. Remember this the next time a Zionist tells you theyâre doing this to âfeel safeâ. The IOF is arming lynch mobs.
On a personal note, this has been the most gut-wrenching week of my life. Every day when I wake up without a text from her I feel so much fear. I fight back the grief but I donât know how to help or what to do. Itâs terrifying.
Swin has asked for nothing, absolutely nothing other than something it can show the people around it to make them feel like theyâre not going to be abandoned. To make sure theyâre not forgotten in some pit praying Rafah opens before Israel decides to slaughter them all.
Today was a bad day. Sheâs alive but beyond worrying about her privacy now; sheâs asked me to share this and to beg that we not lose steam and forget about them. Please share this, and please keep being fucking annoying and loud and digging your heels in with fury because we cannot let these people die silently.
[Times of Gaza] [QUD network] [Eye on Palestine]
