Reflections on Day 202 of Gennocide

Warning, this reflection contains graphic descriptions of violence.

Yesterday, officials discovered 392 dead bodies in a mass grave at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis. This brings the total bodies found in the medical complex to around 700. Some of the bodies were found bound, missing eyes, livers, kidneys. The IOF (Israeli Occupation Forces, a more accurate term than IDF) tourtured patients, and slaughtered them in a hospital. Akram al-Satarri a jounalist from Gaza stated

“some of the people were tied. Some of the people had medical accessories on their hands, like the cannulas. And when they were unearthed from the ground, it was apparent that they were buried alive. Some people were tortured. Some of the bodies were extremely mutilated, which means that those bodies, some of their organs were taken by the Israeli occupation. Some lost their eyes. I could see some bodies with no eyes. I could see some bodies with no liver, with no kidney, some bodies that are — you see them, like the outer skin is just covering the skeleton, and that’s it. So, the account of that experience is quite heart-wrenching.”

This comes in the same week as reports of Israeli quadcopters using loudspeakers to play the sound of crying children to draw civilians out of their homes in order to kill them. The same week as the IOF launched a drone strike on a refugee camp, hitting a playground and murdering 7 children.

Meanwhile in the United States Biden approved a $95 billion dollar military aid package including $26 billion dollars in military aid to Israel and $1 billion in humanitarian relief. On college campuses around the country militarized police crack down on peaceful student protesters in full riot gear. Arresting and brutalizing students, professors, and journalists. This past week I helped organize a teach-in for Palestine with SFUSD educators and families and attended a rally at Stanford calling for divestment and the end of apartheid in our lifetimes. **

What more is there to say? What is there to reflect upon? Every day more atrocities occur and the people in power, from Stanford to Washington do nothing. This is unacceptable. How long will we let this happen?