We, the people of Gaza, have been repeatedly threatened. We have been threatened with being “cleaned out”, with mass death, with “all hell breaking loose” on us.
The thing is, we have already been through hell. I, like two million other Palestinians in Gaza, survived the genocidal inferno from October 7, 2023 to January 19, 2025.
If I have to be honest, I did not survive by hanging on to life. No, I survived by dropping the “f” in life and holding on to “lie”.
The more I lied to myself, the more I sustained my fragile existence. I still remember the first lie I told myself. It was long before the genocide.
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