Patrick deHahn

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My cousin died today of hunger

I’m curled up in a corner of the room, lying flat on the cold floor as the quadcopters circle above,erratic, relentless, spitting bullets in frenzied bursts. The sound is deafening, the terror suffocating. Each second stretches unbearably as I brace for what may come next. The…

Images out of Gaza today are the worst I've ever seen. Children piled on a hospital floor, bloody, injured, dying, dead. A toddler with her intestines outside her body while another screams in terror, reaching out for safety. I can't express this feeling. The rage, the shame.

It’s really hard to share photos or videos of the innocent people killed by Israeli airstrikes in Gaza today—most are gruesome, too graphic to post, and too heartbreaking to watch. There are no words for this kind of horror.

I actually have no words, but read and let it haunt you forever. The world is sick beyond words.

Final chants of the pro-Palestine protest march in New York's Manhattan tonight: "Stop starving Gaza! ... Lift the siege on Gaza now! .. Free, free Palestine!"

Demonstrators culminated their pro-Palestine protest against Israel in Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza outside the UN. Speakers demanded the resumption of humanitarian + food aid to Palestinians, the "end of the genocide of Gaza", and ceasing of US funding to Israel.

A protest calling for the end of Israel's siege on Gaza has reached the United Nations headquarters in New York. The global organization has called for Israel to abide by international humanitarian law and to resume "safe and dignified" aid operations into Gaza.

A pro-Palestine protest against Israel's siege on Gaza has reached 42nd Street and 2nd Avenue, less than a block away from the Israeli embassy. NYPD officers are blocking the group from getting closer, and now the demonstration is chanting in a closed traffic intersection.

The protest marched around Bryant Park and eastbound on 42nd Street. NYPD officers have let demonstrators march on the road the entire way.

Chants of "shut it down" by pro-Palestine protesters approaching Herald Square in New York's Manhattan borough. Marchers are holding signs reading "lift the siege on Gaza now!" and "stop starving Gaza now!"

A protester holds up an empty pot at a march calling for the lift of Israel's siege on Gaza in New York's Manhattan. Palestinians, humanitarians, and doctors have reported a rise in hunger cases in Gaza after Israel's limits on food aid.

Chants of "free, free Palestine" by a few hundred (my rough estimate) marching on 6th Avenue in Manhattan, decrying reports of malnutrition and hunger in Gaza

A pro-Palestine protest calling to "stop starving Gaza now" is now marching uptown on Broadway in Manhattan after Palestinians, humanitarians, and doctors in Gaza report an hunger crisis amid Israeli control on aid

Children will always be the first to die in a starvation campaign or famine. Their little bodies are less able to cope with the deprivation of nutrients. If they survive the starvation, they are often left with lifelong damages to their physical and cognitive development.…

My cousin texted me yesterday. He was almost killed again. A bullet passed just inches from him and hit the man standing next to him in the stomach. Their crime? They were trying to get food for their families from the US/Israel “humanitarian” aid distribution.

I went to the "humanitarian aid" area in Zikim, walking more than 5 kilometers In front of my eyes, more than 10 people were killed by stray bullets Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to get anything. This is the morality of Israel this is the deception of so called humanitarian aid.