“Death” – A Rehearsal? On an old message from Gaza

 

Motaz Azaiza writes / “you are all [fucking] useless / without shame watching us getting / killed one by one / will wait my turn to be killed by Israel / and believe me you are gonna do / nothing” / it is worth / repeating / over and over / over & over & over

On an old message from Gaza

Now Spring 2025 

a hand appears out of the dark

 

the dark waits

expecting the voice

to follow

 

the hand reaches into the dark

as if – a surgeon – searching

for the one organ that

guarantees life

 

but life itself is not in this room

it has fallen asleep

 

in all this rhetoric

only the silence secures the agreement

of the countless muted ghosts who

haunt this space

 

they have planted their stories

like shards of sharp glass

waiting for an endless winter

to end

 

—–

 

Motaz Azaiza writes

 

“you are all [fucking] useless

without shame watching us getting

killed one by one

 

will wait my turn to be killed by Israel

and believe me you are gonna do

nothing”

 

it is worth

repeating

over and over

 

over & over & over

 

—–

 

a hand appears out of the depths

of the dark

it is not your own hand not even

a stranger’s hand you might recognise

 

it has come to welcome you

to a Silence that

you thought you knew

only now you realise

you had long been asleep

 

and in this dark

this is where

you will now wake up

 

without words

without a friend in the world

with no one to grieve you

with everyone already dead

 

you will now wake

 

just as their missile

strikes the

ancient architecture

 

of an almost-human

mind

 

but ruthlessly,

mindlessly

inhuman

 

you can do nothing

 

séamas carraher

 

Good Friday, 2025

For those that still survive in the Gaza Strip, Palestine

https://seamascarraher.blogspot.com/

 

Image & References

Image taken from MoTaz Twitter/X post, December 31, 2023

 

Motaz Hilal Azaiza “(Arabic: معتز هلال عزايزة; born 30 January 1999) is a Palestinian photojournalist from Gaza. He is known for covering the Gaza war, drawing a large social media following…”

Motaz Azaiza Wikipedia

 

Motaz Azaiza, (a genocide survivor “ physically”,  Award Winning Photojournalist, Independent Palestinian), unlike a majority of his contemporary Palestinian journalists in the ongoing Zionist ‘Killing Fields’ of  Gaza, survived Israel’s attempts at assassination and evacuated to Egypt (and Doha) at the end of January 2024.

 

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Killing of journalists in the Gaza war

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List of journalists killed in the Gaza war

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Know their names

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Gaza genocide

Wikipedia – Gaza Genocide

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