Forwarded from 🇵🇸 Automated Apartheid in Palestine
🇵🇸 The Library and the Massacre: A Novelist's Testimony on the Destruction of Libraries in the Gaza Strip | Yousri al-Ghoul, Institute for Palestine Studies
While Palestinians had anticipated restrictions on #food, #fuel, and #travel, few realized the occupation would also besiege their minds.
Books were imprisoned, their circulation banned, and their entry blocked.
Then the massacre came, extinguishing the very dream of life itself – beyond the dreams of #writing or #painting. The #occupation deliberately targeted human existence, not just Palestinian identities, committing acts of genocide unparalleled in modern history.
Even stones and trees were razed, leaving the people of Gaza grappling with a single, desperate concern: preserving their lives and families. But, even this modest aspiration became an impossible dream under the relentless shadow of planes raining barrel bombs on fragile homes in overcrowded #RefugeeCamps.
#Palestine #Genocide #Culture #Books #Libraries #Testimonies
While Palestinians had anticipated restrictions on #food, #fuel, and #travel, few realized the occupation would also besiege their minds.
Books were imprisoned, their circulation banned, and their entry blocked.
Then the massacre came, extinguishing the very dream of life itself – beyond the dreams of #writing or #painting. The #occupation deliberately targeted human existence, not just Palestinian identities, committing acts of genocide unparalleled in modern history.
Even stones and trees were razed, leaving the people of Gaza grappling with a single, desperate concern: preserving their lives and families. But, even this modest aspiration became an impossible dream under the relentless shadow of planes raining barrel bombs on fragile homes in overcrowded #RefugeeCamps.
#Palestine #Genocide #Culture #Books #Libraries #Testimonies