A Palestinian man, diagnosed with cancer and living in the Al-Buraij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, built a home with primitive means using mud to shelter his family amid a shortage of reconstruction materials and the stifling Israeli blockade on the enclave.
“Gaza is a model: a preview of a global order where international law is discarded, colonial violence is normalized, and entire populations are sacrificed with impunity.”
Journalist Chris Hedges says that Israel’s attacks on Gaza, rebranded from “self-defense” to “war” to a hollow “ceasefire, remains an ongoing genocide carried out against a besieged, defenseless population.
He notes that despite the ceasefire, Israel has violated nearly all its terms, continued bombardment and killings, restricted aid to famine levels, expanded its military control to more than half of Gaza, and enforced a shifting “yellow line” where civilians, including children, are shot on sight.
Hedges underscores that Gaza’s 2.3 million Palestinians face systematic destruction: mass displacement, starvation, the obliteration of infrastructure, and denial of reconstruction materials.
The genocide, he argues, has merely slowed, not ended, becoming a form of “slow-motion killing,” with daily deaths, rampant malnutrition, collapsing living conditions, and mounting prisoner abuse.
