How Palestinians use the tunnel network to fight tanks in southern Gaza, with Jon Elmer

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  • Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
  • Jon Elmer covers the resistance throughout the Gaza Strip, from Rafah to Beit Hanoun, including a look at some of the latest videos from the ground.
    Nora Barrows-Friedman, Asa Winstanley, Ali Abunimah and Jon Elmer of The Electronic Intifada were joined by EI associate editor Omar Karmi on the day 250 livestream. You can watch the entire broadcast here: www.youtube.co...
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  • @ukhilali7418
    @ukhilali7418 3 месяца назад +182

    Israel must be held accountable for war crimes against humanity and genocide in Palestine 🇵🇸

  • @The-Man-Right-Chea
    @The-Man-Right-Chea 3 месяца назад +4

    😮😢😢🤥🤥🤥🤥🤥🤥🤥Does anyone else find it interesting that you cannot spell Israel without the letters L-I-A-R-S 🤔 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

  • @berniegn.983
    @berniegn.983 3 месяца назад

    Big fat lie that the corridor is meant to allow for aid passage to Gaza!

  • @dobbersanchez1185
    @dobbersanchez1185 3 месяца назад +1

    Operational control 😂

  • @tekis0
    @tekis0 3 месяца назад +76

    The Palestinians fight tenaciously, with complete honor. Their hostages are never tortured or abused; it's obvious.
    "The world's most moral army" use torture, deceit, overwhelming force and wanton savagery against the defenseless.

  • @simonbilling2796
    @simonbilling2796 3 месяца назад +143

    Palestine will be free 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 from this lunacy

    • @jmac4952
      @jmac4952 3 месяца назад +13

      from this satanism.

    • @scaryfakevirus
      @scaryfakevirus 3 месяца назад +3

      @@jmac4952 Yes that is the bottom line.

  • @PerceivedREALITY999
    @PerceivedREALITY999 3 месяца назад +92

    Thank you Jon. Independent journalists with journalistic integrity are the heroes of our time.

    • @ronaldlatchman1268
      @ronaldlatchman1268 3 месяца назад

      Except for the one that housed hostages

    • @javy__air
      @javy__air 3 месяца назад

      ​@@ronaldlatchman1268Or the ones who made up stories about r*pe and s*xualized violence.

    • @MiMiiViVi
      @MiMiiViVi 3 месяца назад +1

      @@ronaldlatchman1268 Contributor.... but maybe the hostages would have been more comfortable in the hot tents, sleeping on the dirt and gone to the bathroom outside...like everyone else.

  • @greghanson407
    @greghanson407 3 месяца назад +71

    I got interested in the Palestinian cause when I was 15. That was in 1968. I never thought that at age 71 I would still be watching the Palestine tragedy unfolding in all of its horror and gore.

    • @katiekane5247
      @katiekane5247 3 месяца назад +19

      I wish I'd paid attention when young. I'm ashamed at how propagandized my generation of seniors is. Thanks Greg

    • @kjw6383
      @kjw6383 3 месяца назад +12

      I know. 70 yr here. Occupation subjugation murder theft lies.
      Watch the new aljazeera al shifa documentary. It is very good.

    • @marilynshepherd6480
      @marilynshepherd6480 3 месяца назад +4

      Ditto, we must be twins, my grandpa was a WW11 vet base in Gaza and he told us about the lovely Palestinians and the perfidy of the west giving the land away.

    • @kimberlybrodeur6866
      @kimberlybrodeur6866 3 месяца назад +3

      I look at this genocide equal to Hitler

    • @robertbrown3927
      @robertbrown3927 3 месяца назад +1

      I am 73 and agree with you that it is unbelievable it is not settled yet. Just been reading about the Senate in a private showing of Oct 7th footage presented by IDF, Israel. Some cried, must have a great "Wag the Dog" presentation. Hostages talked about being attacked and shot at by Israel helicopters. Hannibal Protocol.
      Pure Bull-sh t
      Rob

  • @christianmccann9400
    @christianmccann9400 3 месяца назад +209

    Greetings from Ireland .. BDS apartheid Israel .. Free Palestine!

    • @Tom_Quixote
      @Tom_Quixote 3 месяца назад +7

      Sláinte

    • @ghulamhussain687
      @ghulamhussain687 3 месяца назад +6

      Free Palestine 🇵🇸

    • @YaoEspirito
      @YaoEspirito 3 месяца назад

      You're giving PenisRECEIVER999 a run for who can mass-post the most repeated "comments" on RUclips. Damn..

    • @crips145
      @crips145 3 месяца назад +5

      🇮🇪

    • @sayeedsayeed8720
      @sayeedsayeed8720 3 месяца назад +5

      👍👍👍👍👍👍👏👏👏👏❤

  • @bridgetbold6867
    @bridgetbold6867 3 месяца назад +72

    As a christian believer, I feel guilty to rejoice at any and all victories of the resistance fighters, because Jesus tells us to pray for our enemies and I have a really hard time praying for Israel, forgiving Netanyahu is like extremely hard for me. I just want to say how my whole heart is with Palestine, I admire the resistance fighters immensely, in my eyes they are amazing HEROES. JESUS I PRAY YOU HAVE MERCY ON PALESTINE YOUR HOMELAND. AMEN

    • @Talk24andOn
      @Talk24andOn 3 месяца назад +8

      What a paragraph! Salute! 😅

    • @starryTaarey
      @starryTaarey 3 месяца назад +4

      You're so great 🤝🏻

    • @Jose-hs4vk
      @Jose-hs4vk 3 месяца назад +10

      The IDF is a poorly trained army. The IDF will not be able to sustain this conflict, they are loosing a $10 million dollar tank with a $500 dollar RPG. My estimation is that at least 100 tanks have been destroyed or damaged, so the question is how many more tank does Israel has?

    • @conchilita8727
      @conchilita8727 3 месяца назад +5

      Bridget,es usted una buena persona y ademas,inteligente,que Dios le bendiga 🙋🇵🇸✌️

    • @YaoEspirito
      @YaoEspirito 3 месяца назад +10

      Spiritually, you are completely on the right side of this struggle. Good over evil.

  • @edwardjones2202
    @edwardjones2202 3 месяца назад +53

    Great job Jon and EI team

  • @72defender
    @72defender 3 месяца назад +43

    EI is best RUclips channel covering conflict!

    • @jmac4952
      @jmac4952 3 месяца назад +7

      yes!

    • @anandasouthard7760
      @anandasouthard7760 3 месяца назад +7

      Don’t forget to read their articles on the website! The amazing writers from Gaza and ei staff are doing amazing work. Especially our beloved comrades in Gaza 💕

  • @vinceneuwirth568
    @vinceneuwirth568 3 месяца назад +51

    FREE PALESTINE 🇵🇸 !!!

  • @AFFarms444
    @AFFarms444 3 месяца назад +28

    Unparalleled courage, resilience, and commitment.

  • @wornoutshoes2332
    @wornoutshoes2332 3 месяца назад +17

    I cant say adequately enough how much i love the Palestinian people. I was there in mid 2000s when Hamas agreed to the first ever cheasefire with the Israelis. They are just beautiful people, very kind and giving.

  • @gandhi9936
    @gandhi9936 3 месяца назад +33

    Biden: Rafah is a red line.
    Biden: Here's more money, weapons, and intelligence.

    • @jmac4952
      @jmac4952 3 месяца назад +5

      for your over the red line operation.

    • @tekis0
      @tekis0 3 месяца назад

      Biden: "If you take this vaccine, you won't get Covid..."

    • @starryTaarey
      @starryTaarey 3 месяца назад +1

      Wisely said
      Thank you. @gandhi9936

    • @starryTaarey
      @starryTaarey 3 месяца назад +1

      ​@@jmac4952 yes 😢 may god keep you safe for saying the truth

  • @eamar0509
    @eamar0509 3 месяца назад +36

    🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸✊✊🏽✊🏿🇵🇸🇵🇸☝️
    Thank you
    جمعة مباركة من القدس المحتلة

  • @moroccanboy3385
    @moroccanboy3385 3 месяца назад +24

    John's analysis is my favorite part of the program.

  • @thecheshirecat999
    @thecheshirecat999 3 месяца назад +15

    Palestinians are the most corageus people. Thank you Jon for your reports

  • @scottyelder8351
    @scottyelder8351 3 месяца назад +54

    Even FEAR respects the unbelievable strength of the average Palestinian Child they are just invincible and will never yield I love very much.

    • @ronaldlatchman1268
      @ronaldlatchman1268 3 месяца назад

      Brainwashing little palestinian children is what you love. Teaching them to hate and kill jews is what you enjoy and priding yourself in their death is what your ego is built on.

  • @kitanianunesdebarros2659
    @kitanianunesdebarros2659 3 месяца назад +33

    Free Palestine ❤! ✌️

  • @lunadisole1876
    @lunadisole1876 3 месяца назад +17

    The resistance is morally superior . Their cause is just, Israel’s is not.

  • @alphamale-co8uu
    @alphamale-co8uu 3 месяца назад +12

    They are showing real Heroism which nobody shows since years 1700 ad, Viva Palestine 🇵🇸 Long live Resistance 👍

    • @danielvertens6787
      @danielvertens6787 3 месяца назад +2

      Sry but must to say,Chechen,Bosnian people did in the 90s

  • @YushawuMubarick
    @YushawuMubarick 3 месяца назад +26

    Thanks very much jon

  • @nickjohnson4923
    @nickjohnson4923 3 месяца назад +19

    Great work again Jon.....essential viewing.

  • @saeedagha3127
    @saeedagha3127 3 месяца назад +16

    Thank you again. Free Palestine

  • @humbug175
    @humbug175 3 месяца назад +9

    This is yet another American Proxy war.

  • @gerrybannon7394
    @gerrybannon7394 3 месяца назад +33

    In our millions and our billions we are all Palestinian 🇵🇸

  • @emorymichael9602
    @emorymichael9602 3 месяца назад +6

    Another outstanding report. Thank you Jon! You guys are doing a fantastic service. Your videos will be a critically important part of the archival history of this conflict. Something that will be studied for centuries. Palestine's heroes will be celebrated forever.

  • @Fdelphinus
    @Fdelphinus 3 месяца назад +8

    That yassin thing looks heavy, it must be difficult to aim with that, and yet every time they score a freaking direct hit. FFS Do these guys use an aimbot or what? Just imagine what they could do if they had half of the equipment their oppressors have... scary...

    • @starryTaarey
      @starryTaarey 3 месяца назад +5

      Not scary. They'd never misuse any of such power the way their opponents have been doing so

    • @Fdelphinus
      @Fdelphinus 3 месяца назад +3

      @@starryTaarey True. It's a way to say that if they had tanks and helicopters, diapers would be detected flying in outer space right now.

  • @gghstlr
    @gghstlr 3 месяца назад +25

    ❤️🇵🇸✊🏽

  • @sabrinayounisaden7238
    @sabrinayounisaden7238 3 месяца назад +16

    Greetings from Nederland.

  • @conchilita8727
    @conchilita8727 3 месяца назад +7

    Hay muchos complices en el genocidio,deben ser juzgados. Gracias Jon por contribuir a la humanidad,a la verdad 🙋❤️

  • @Btariq523
    @Btariq523 3 месяца назад +9

    I really appreciate your good work and wish the ef team the best

  • @ningacuqui
    @ningacuqui 3 месяца назад +8

    I love your channel ❤ Amo su canal. Soy Colombiana 🇨🇴 y vivo en DC

  • @Buuba344
    @Buuba344 3 месяца назад +36

    Dear Jon, you are doing a fantastic job explaining the Palestinian side covered almost nowhere else this way. Thank you for your diligence. This time all is different and Palestine will be free, also thanks to people like you!

  • @armindacardozo4001
    @armindacardozo4001 3 месяца назад +15

    Keep up your very good analisys❤❤❤

  • @h0mest0ned
    @h0mest0ned 3 месяца назад +11

    Its also a strong connection to the land to move bare foot

  • @khanfamily95
    @khanfamily95 3 месяца назад +10

    Land of the heros.

  • @71_OnTheUp
    @71_OnTheUp 3 месяца назад +11

    The ingenuity is admirable.

  • @mohammedabdullah4111
    @mohammedabdullah4111 3 месяца назад +9

    The positivity captured in action in these EI reports warms my heart.

  • @topdamagewizard
    @topdamagewizard 3 месяца назад +5

    The olive trees are speaking Arabic. I love it. Imagine riding around a 6mill plus tank. Getting absolutely washed by a guy with no shoes on O.o

  • @CatLogics
    @CatLogics 3 месяца назад +64

    “Israel” asked Palestine: “Palestine, why do the Western governments love me but hate you?” Palestine responded: “Because you are a beautiful lie and I am a painful truth.”
    =🇵🇸=…CatSense…=🇮🇪=

    • @ghulamhussain687
      @ghulamhussain687 3 месяца назад +8

      Free Palestine 🇵🇸

    • @waynevanrensburg8037
      @waynevanrensburg8037 3 месяца назад +5

      Beautiful lie and painful truth. What a wonderful way to sum it up

    • @ronaldlatchman1268
      @ronaldlatchman1268 3 месяца назад

      Palestine asked Israel why do you always win all the wars we wage against you. Israel responds - justice always prevails in the end.

    • @Jose-hs4vk
      @Jose-hs4vk 3 месяца назад +3

      The IDF is a poorly trained army. The IDF will not be able to sustain this conflict, they are loosing a $10 million dollar tank with a $500 dollar RPG. My estimation is that at least 100 tanks have been destroyed or damaged, so the question is how many more tank does Israel has?

    • @janetwalk4996
      @janetwalk4996 3 месяца назад

      Definitely got the “beautiful” part wrong

  • @kam70111
    @kam70111 3 месяца назад +21

    Now to the last man standing. From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.

    • @kimberlybrodeur6866
      @kimberlybrodeur6866 3 месяца назад

      The joke is on Israel bc they are not clever just evil.

  • @mary-annemareikura728
    @mary-annemareikura728 3 месяца назад +22

    Kia ora from Whanganui, New Zealand! ❤

    • @ghulamhussain687
      @ghulamhussain687 3 месяца назад +3

      Free Palestine 🇵🇸

    • @khanfamily95
      @khanfamily95 3 месяца назад

      te ngakau hauora . Greetings from H Town .

  • @marlbankian
    @marlbankian 3 месяца назад +10

    The fight against Lebensraum Philosophy Continues

  • @AsoolKhan
    @AsoolKhan 3 месяца назад +7

    I respect your true journalism by showing the facts and courage

  • @lilianacalkins1799
    @lilianacalkins1799 3 месяца назад +14

    Yellow roses will regrow from the devastation! The roses are as strong as the Palestinians! Their soil is the yellow rose! Gardens from the River to the sea! 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

    • @mohammedqasim7147
      @mohammedqasim7147 3 месяца назад +2

      Roses of red, symbolic of the blood they have shed for their land

  • @mramji1688
    @mramji1688 3 месяца назад +12

    🇵🇸 🍉 ☝🏽 🔻 ⭕

  • @knightsonofjack
    @knightsonofjack 3 месяца назад +23

    Palestinians are hard as nails

  • @hardtail52
    @hardtail52 3 месяца назад +2

    More money more money more money ! America spends money like a drunken sailor, especially when it comes to Israel.....! Here is a few million to figure out how they dug these tunnels.....! I guess we didn't learn anything from Vietnam?

  • @georgiebestmanutd4746
    @georgiebestmanutd4746 3 месяца назад +5

    Luv them watermelons 🍉

  • @oblomofff
    @oblomofff 3 месяца назад +13

    Thank you Jon! ❤

  • @waynevanrensburg8037
    @waynevanrensburg8037 3 месяца назад +3

    Adding to algorithm 😊thank you for your service ❤

  • @anandasouthard7760
    @anandasouthard7760 3 месяца назад +4

    The Israelis don’t even have command and control of their own troops 😂

  • @Marxist2
    @Marxist2 3 месяца назад +5

    Wonderful visuals, Jon. Thanks for all the info you bring us.

  • @LobBazar
    @LobBazar 3 месяца назад +5

    Resistance report is best part of the week

  • @tirdadhakhamanesh5396
    @tirdadhakhamanesh5396 3 месяца назад +9

    Thanks Jon 🍀

  • @kitanianunesdebarros2659
    @kitanianunesdebarros2659 3 месяца назад +3

    Obrigada por mostrar a verdade para o mundo querido!

  • @katerinak4164
    @katerinak4164 3 месяца назад +3

    Long live the brave Palestinian Resistance and everyone who supports them! Free Palestine! 🇵🇸♥️

  • @sl...h
    @sl...h 3 месяца назад +4

    Thank your great reporting
    Free Palestine

  • @decentone3934
    @decentone3934 3 месяца назад +3

    There is no escape when they get trapped in ambush. . What a waste of life. Live in unity live and let live. Is the best policy.in my humble opinion

  • @cadilacdesert
    @cadilacdesert 3 месяца назад +2

    I pay $1000 a month in taxes as an American. I’m pretty fed up.

  • @jamesbbengo3306
    @jamesbbengo3306 3 месяца назад +2

    Lovely presentation of facts and authentic information. Thank you

  • @nawazishkhan2080
    @nawazishkhan2080 3 месяца назад +3

    At this sensitive stage don't describe tactics of ha..m....a...ص ,hope you understand

    • @lunadisole1876
      @lunadisole1876 3 месяца назад

      We need this info, and the resistance wants their efforts to be known. Of course it’s dangerous.

    • @nawazishkhan2080
      @nawazishkhan2080 3 месяца назад

      @@lunadisole1876 revealing tactics to your overwhelmingly superior enemy is utter foolishness especially in guerrilla war

  • @he1461
    @he1461 3 месяца назад +2

    Amazing footage you bring to us, John. That’s extraordinary reporting that the mainstream outlets will never show. Thank you for this incredible work that everyone needs to see.

  • @rawbebaba
    @rawbebaba 3 месяца назад +2

    So many of these people are just kids man.

  • @nabilyar
    @nabilyar 3 месяца назад +3

    This heroic fighters are better than all armies of the world, in skill, bravery, sheer determination and so much more. Palestine will be free. The ceasefire will come this month. We are all praying.

  • @StephenGoodfellow
    @StephenGoodfellow 3 месяца назад +3

    Vote foreign coin politicians out of office.

  • @Peter-MH
    @Peter-MH 3 месяца назад +12

    🇬🇧🤝🇵🇸

  • @BeverlyBurnette-ll2gl
    @BeverlyBurnette-ll2gl 3 месяца назад +5

    Great information

  • @AdilAchahbar-g9i
    @AdilAchahbar-g9i 3 месяца назад +3

    Israel published a video showing a Palestinian fighter He emerges from a tunnel opening to target a tank or bulldozer, but an Israeli drone discovers him and the tank opens fire on him with its machine gun, but it does not hit him. That fighter withdrew but left the RPG in the tunnel opening.For some reason, the Israelis cut the image and edited the video to show an. The moment of explosion in the tunnel opening. Are they embarrassed that they couldn't get him

    • @MiMiiViVi
      @MiMiiViVi 3 месяца назад +1

      Well yes bragging, exaggerating, lying and propaganda have been their game.

  • @alexgaras1573
    @alexgaras1573 3 месяца назад +2

    Free Palestine and then free the world 🌍 🌎 from the same evil oppressors! Peace ✌️ out !

  • @stevensmeagol6066
    @stevensmeagol6066 3 месяца назад +1

    Isreali military strategy comes from TEAM AMERICA film. Hospital costumes exact copy

  • @Mrhasbarafree
    @Mrhasbarafree 3 месяца назад +2

    They are just European settlers cosplaying as ancient Israelites.

  • @BellybuttonGunk
    @BellybuttonGunk 3 месяца назад +2

    All those sex offenders who ran to Israel and joined the IOF to escape prosecution are real nervous right about now.

  • @alessiav5754
    @alessiav5754 3 месяца назад +1

    Millions of US tax dollars being blown up in seconds! Think about it. You may never be able to retire as retirement funds are very quickly drying up.

  • @ianweniger6620
    @ianweniger6620 3 месяца назад +1

    We'll never get to see a USA/ISR project on anti-olive-tree operations...

  • @mirjanagavrilovic4275
    @mirjanagavrilovic4275 3 месяца назад +3

    Thank you❤

  • @mytboss
    @mytboss 3 месяца назад +1

    How can someone find meaning in supporting what Norman Finkelstein considered a "Lunatic State!"

  • @brilliantmalcolm1544
    @brilliantmalcolm1544 3 месяца назад +1

    Heros of Gaza!! God bless y'all, FREE PALESTINE!!

  • @craftspaces4475
    @craftspaces4475 3 месяца назад +1

    I have always believed that only Palestinians themselves are the ones who will get back their human rights and dignity.

  • @MAShaiye
    @MAShaiye 3 месяца назад +2

    Free Palestine

  • @saintz177
    @saintz177 3 месяца назад +1

    You can't beat FREEDOM FIGHTERS

  • @wouterjansen4176
    @wouterjansen4176 3 месяца назад +9

    👍

  • @NitramSaps38
    @NitramSaps38 3 месяца назад +1

    There will be a documentary series about this when Palestine will be liberated.

  • @sayeedsayeed8720
    @sayeedsayeed8720 3 месяца назад +2

    ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ PALESTINE ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤😊

  • @paulhenry7
    @paulhenry7 3 месяца назад +2

    Thank you Jon, thank you Tamara.

  • @L10nh34rt1
    @L10nh34rt1 3 месяца назад +1

    Thanks again for this extensive analysis. Love it!

  • @frejahjnielsen519
    @frejahjnielsen519 3 месяца назад +1

    Free palestine

  • @johnnymcnoodle27
    @johnnymcnoodle27 3 месяца назад +4

    You will never defeat a people who do not fear death.

  • @Sokha-j2x
    @Sokha-j2x 3 месяца назад +1

    Thank u for ur excellent report

  • @abdulhaqq6183
    @abdulhaqq6183 3 месяца назад +10

    Alhumdulillah!

  • @frankm.afflittoph.d.7857
    @frankm.afflittoph.d.7857 3 месяца назад +1

    Presenting this information is essential and provides truthand great faith in steadfastness.

  • @crips145
    @crips145 3 месяца назад

    This definitely looks like women aren't resistance

  • @Maskmen007
    @Maskmen007 3 месяца назад +1

    Thanks Electronic Intifada.

  • @kylezo
    @kylezo 3 месяца назад

    that bit about the $30m american/israeli anti-tunnel partnership blew my mind. I mean i knew there was complicity obviously but between this and the americans in IOF operations, it's just an american campaign altogether. it's not american "funded", "supported", "enabled", it's american. israel is just a subcontractor. the craziest part to me is how the transaction is america gives the supplies, THEN gives the money, then PAYS the private sector producers (they make components for the bunker busters 35 miles from my house in healdsburg, CA, for instance) for the stuff israel got. so israel gets paid, the manufacturer gets paid, and i have to pay more for water too?

  • @maureenerwin6485
    @maureenerwin6485 3 месяца назад

    I run barefoot. Sand is my preferred surface. Barefoot running connects you to the earth. US Navy Seals have been seen in their Vibram Five Fingers. I don’t think the IDF understands barefoot running. That’s all I have to say about that.

  • @mramji1688
    @mramji1688 3 месяца назад +7

    🇵🇸2️⃣🚫2️⃣4️⃣🇵🇸

  • @grahamebell4593
    @grahamebell4593 3 месяца назад

    We are becoming immune to the suffering of people ALL PEOPLE by the politics of the US and it's Western allies from Ukraine to Gaza A heartfelt plea for the return of humanity to our politicians and our society from a real human being .
    The dead children don’t affect me like they used to.
    The images. The videos. They still disturb and horrify, but not like they did in the beginning. Not anywhere close.
    And, honestly, I hate it. I hate that that part of me has been stolen.
    As much as I hated having my heart kicked around all day and having nightmares all night, I’d rather have that than this decreased sensitivity.
    People should not become desensitized to such horrors. People should not become accustomed to decapitated babies and small, mangled bodies. To corpses run over by tanks. To body parts carried in plastic bags by loved ones.
    These things should jar you. They should rattle you to your core. But they don’t anymore. Not here.
    I held onto it for as long as I could. It felt like a solemn duty, to hold on to that part of me that still screamed with an appropriate mixture of grief and outrage at the latest tiny shredded body. But desensitization sets in whether you want it to or not. That’s how they create soldiers, after all.
    I hate that these pricks have amputated that part of me, and I hate that I know it will never grow back. I have been permanently disfigured inside, mutated by atrocities, all the way down here safe in the Melbourne suburbs.
    And I hate that this is happening all around the world to everyone else who’s kept their gaze fixed on Gaza. All around the world humanity is being mutated. All around the world something sacred is being stolen from the hearts of good people. All around the world people are finding callouses where there used to be tenderness.
    And I want my tenderness back, god damn it. I want my tenderness back.
    Give me back the nightmares. Give me back the tears. Give me back the dry retching over the toilet, and the shaking under the blankets. Give me back the collapsing onto the couch and not moving for several hours until my system can recover from what my eyes just saw.
    I’ll take it. I’ll take it all back again. Just give me back that soft, tender part of myself that has been withered to dust by a live-streamed genocide.
    I will take good care of it. I will feed it good things. I’ll give it plenty of sunshine, cupping it delicately in my hands by the window. I will take it for walks, and let it rejoice at the children running and playing, with their parts all together and their insides on the inside.
    Don’t leave me hardened and darkened like a soldier. Give me back that soft, sacred part of myself that weeps at the corpses of children, so I can behold the world gently again.