Ziad Medoukh lives and works in Gaza as a French teacher, he is head ofthe French department at Al-Aqsa University. A tireless witness to Gazaand Palestine, he has held numerous meetings in France and Europe, hehas come several times to Saint-Nazaire at the invitation of the localPalestine Support Committee, the CSPRN. He sends us this testimony todayfrom GazaMessage from Ziad Medoukh - Friday January 26, 2024Hello from destroyed Gaza and devastated Gaza.Believe me: my determination, my courage, my resilience, my patience,and my optimism cannot overcome my total distressAfter almost four months since the beginning of this horrific aggressionby the occupation against the civilian population of the Gaza Strip, thesituation on the ground is increasingly catastrophic and terrifying.Life is a bitter taste, in fact there is no life in GazaLife is completely paralyzedThere is nothing: no food, no water, no medicine, no electricity, nogas, no milk, no bread, no fruit, no vegetables, no meat, no chicken, nofish, no means of transport, no housing and neither prospects.Thousands of students are deprived of their lessons, and tens ofthousands of students are deprived of their studies.Thousands of civil servants, employees and workers are deprived of theirjobs and salaries.Nothing is working in Gaza currently: no administration and no commerce.I am very sadI am unhappy, I suffer on a daily basis like all the inhabitants of thisdevastated region and left to its fate by a complicit officialinternational community.And I'm putting up with the unbearableI decided to write this testimony to share my pain with you friends andsupporters of good will, you are my only comfort in this daily hellWhen I have access to the internet, I try to give news, the problem isthat to get to an internet point I have to walk two kilometers and infront of this point, there are a crazy crowd and everyone has the rightto thirty minutes only, everyone wants to have news of their family inthe south and the communication network is often disrupted and destroyedby bombingsI see your many messages of support and sympathy - the people who offerhelp and donations, I thank you very much, I always said that the mostimportant thing is moral and political solidarity, what's more, I am asimple Palestinian citizen of Gaza, I live like all the inhabitants, andI do not want to be privileged with my network and my many friends andacquaintances - even if I do not respond because the internet network isvery weak, but your messages relieve me the Palestinian citizen of Gazawho has lost everything and is trying to survive with the little hope hehas leftMy daily life is very difficult and very complicatedIt's true that I have experienced a lot of wars, attacks, offensives andcarnage.But I have never experienced a horrible situation like this since mychildhoodCurrently moved from one neighborhood to another and from one house toanother among relatives and cousins, because the bombings continue dayand night everywhere in this open and closed air prison, and tanks canarrive in n any neighborhood at any time.The problem that in each home there are 30 to 40 people living therebetween residents and displaced people, and we have to face thisexceptional situationI became homeless and homeless and I have to accept everything in theseshelters.I cannot read or write in these houses, because of the noise, and thepresence of dozens of people, in addition, I lost my computers and mylibrary with its 3000 thousand books in French after the destruction ofmy apartment At the beginning of last December, I was unable to recoverany of my belongings, my clothes, my diplomas, my published books, myresearch and my courses.Everyone goes home before 5 p.m., and we sleep around 7 p.m., in theevening we light with lamps which we recharge in the morning with thesolar panels, fortunately there is always sun in Gaza, in fact thepanels solar panels have greatly helped the inhabitants of Gaza to havea little light by recharging their lamps, their batteries and theirmobile phones during this period of darkness and power outage since thebeginning of this aggression at the beginning of last October.For me, at night, I can't sleep, I think of my murdered brother with hiswhole family, and I cry alone, I return to my beautiful memories beforethis attack, I try to dream and hope for a better future, but in vain.I, who was lifting the spirits of the traumatized youth and children ofGaza, have become shocked and traumatized by the succession of tragicevents that have struck my family and all the citizens of Gaza in recentmonths, and I cannot find anyone to to erase my tears and to calm myenormous anger.My heart bleeds all the time.Believe me, I am not pessimistic, and I love life very much like all thePalestinian people, but on the spot, our context is unimaginable,unacceptable and horrible!For food, we eat only one meal a day and sometimes one meal every twodays, there is nothing on the markets to eat, often a plate of rice anda few pieces of bread, and if we drink a cup Coffee or tea is a luxuryfor us.In each house, men and women work hard to prepare meals using woodfires, because there is no gas.It is not money that is lacking but food and essential products, becausefor 4 months no products have entered Gaza and there is no humanitarianaid arriving in the north of the Gaza Strip.In addition, there is no international organization or local associationthat takes care of the destitute and displaced people who are currentlyvery numerous in the Gaza Strip.According to a latest United Nations report in early January 2024, 90%of Gaza residents suffer from food insecurity.People here started to starve.Not to mention that prices are multiplied by ten, and the few productsavailable are very expensiveA small bottle of mineral water currently costs 5 euros in Gaza,previously its price did not even exceed 0.10 centsA kilo of rice which cost 2 euros went to 10 euros, a kilo of flour 12euros before we bought it for 1 euro, and an egg is worth 3 euros, whilethe tray of 30 eggs cost 4 euros before the attack .Everything is very expensive in Gaza, and nothing is available on themarkets.Added to all this, there are no fruits or vegetables, in fact, all theagricultural land in the north of the Gaza Strip has been destroyed.For water, there is no potable water for drinking, and even water fordomestic use does not come into the taps, and it is bought veryexpensively from a few stations that are still functioning, becauseseveral water wells have been destroyed.Several contaminated diseases affect residents.The worst thing is that there is no authority, no government and nomunicipal services that manage and control the very critical situation.Everyone fends for themselves to survive.On the other hand, the Palestinians in Gaza show solidarity amongthemselves, but sometimes people have nothing to give, because there isnothing there.In the morning, everyone's concern is to find something to feed theirfamily and search for water with great difficulty.When I walk the streets of Gaza, I become very unhappy, because in everyneighborhood there are destroyed and damaged houses, buildings,buildings and civil infrastructure.I learn every day of the assassination of my cousins, relatives,friends, colleagues, neighbors and students, it makes me very sadbecause I am helpless and I cannot say a word of condolence to theirfamilies.The feeling of helplessness is horribleImagine, there are no bakeries, stores, pharmacies, restaurants or cafesopen.And the worst thing is that the people here are very sad, they arepreoccupied by their tragic daily life, they think of their missingloved ones and they try to look for food and water for their children,no one speaks to anyone, no exchange , no smile, everyone is in shock;in every family there are dead, injured, displaced and houses destroyedSometimes I wonder how people here manage to survive and still exist.For the health situation, it is dramatic, no hospital is functioning,all the hospitals are out of service, there are only three clinics inall of Gaza City which serve 300,000 inhabitants and displaced people,in each clinic, there are only five or six Overworked volunteer doctorswho see 5,000 patients a day, with no real medicines to give, or expiredmedicines.Personally, I am currently ill, I cannot find any laboratory to carryout analyzes or pharmacy or hospital to treat me.The most moral army in the world has murdered 27,000 Palestinians inGaza so far, including 22,000 children and women, and injured 70,000.Not to mention, the destruction of almost 65% of civil infrastructure.The problem is that this cowardly and criminal army has not achieved anyobjective set for this far-right government.It is murderous madness and total impunity without any officialinternational reaction.The Palestinians of Gaza, despite their anger and their misfortune,greatly appreciate the demonstrations of solidarity throughout the worldto denounce this repeated genocide and to call for an immediateceasefire in the Gaza Strip.Four very difficult months for me and for all the inhabitants of Gazawith painful events, these four months were all terrible.The month of October 2023, at the start of the aggression, it is truethat there were intensive bombings, but I was very busy, I gaveinterviews to French-speaking media, I had access to internet and I gavedaily testimonies and regular contacts with friends and solidaritygroups with Palestine in the French-speaking world, the markets wereopen and there was some foodLast November, the situation became very complicated, with the start ofthe ground operation, the evacuation of my family to the south, and thearrival of tanks in my neighborhood, I was surrounded in my home in mydevastated neighborhood.The month of December 2023 was a dark month for me with theassassination of my brother and his entire family, the destruction of myapartment and our building, and my obligation to leave my neighborhoodto find refuge with relatives.The month of January 2024 saw the continuation of the bombings and thearrival of tanks throughout Gaza City, and my obligation once again tolook for other houses to live in.There are many events to tell, I would need pages and books to describeour very difficult daily life under the bombs and in shock with thiscatastrophic humanitarian situation and this unprecedented disaster, andI do not yet believe that I am still alive, because I see death athousand times a day, although I am not afraid of death, however, I amworried about our future.The positive aspect in all of this that makes me proud of myself: I haveno hatredPalestinian friendshipsof Gaza which is no longer GazaAnd Ziad who is no longer Ziadhttp://oclibertaire.lautre.net/spip.php?article4059_________________________________________A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C EBy, For, and About AnarchistsSend news reports to A-infos-en mailing listA-infos-en@ainfos.ca
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