Lubna Masarwa –Middle East Eye Feb 7, 2025
Aya Hassuna, 30, left her home in Gaza City’s eastern Shejaiya neighbourhood with her husband and two young children in November 2023, heading south amongst crowds of Palestinians forced to flee as Israel’s brutal assault on the enclave gathered momentum.
But Hassuna was the only member of the family who survived to make the painful return journey.
It is now almost eight months, Hassuna told Middle East Eye, since Hamza and Raghad, aged four and two, were killed alongside their father by Israeli bombing in Khan Younis.
Hassuna said the family had been given the chance to escape from Gaza to Egypt through the Rafah crossing but had refused, fearing that, if they left, they would never be able to return.
She had rejected another opportunity to leave for a job abroad since being widowed, she said.
Now Hassuna has a message for Donald Trump, who this week proposed that Palestinians should be moved out of Gaza and that the territory should be owned by the US.
“Even after everything I’ve been through, I refuse to leave,” she said.
“We’ve just been through a war. The occupation tried to displace the people of Gaza to the Sinai Peninsula. But despite the siege, despite the genocide, despite the destruction, and despite the hunger, they couldn’t drive us out.”
Last month, Hassuna was again walking, this time with hundreds of thousands of people making their way northwards after a ceasefire was agreed between Hamas and Israel.
Initially she and her sister had hoped to drive north, but after a day and a night stuck in traffic she decided to make the journey on foot.
“I was walking amongst the people. The road was tiring, especially when you see with your own eyes the destruction, the corpses on the side of the road. You forget your own hardships when you see the suffering of others.
“As soon as the roads opened people were moving back to the north. We do not give any regard to Trump’s statements. We are holding onto our land.”
‘A thief’s mentality’
Muhammad Abdel Majeed, who is in his mid-30s, has also returned to northern Gaza to see what is left of his family’s home in Jabalia refugee camp.
Majeed is the descendent of Palestinians displaced from modern-day Israel during the events known to Palestinians as the Nakba, or “catastrophe”, in 1948.
“I returned alone to inspect my house. I found the entire area completely wiped off the map,” he said.
“Trump’s statements are a continuation of the systematic war crimes against the Palestinian people. He wants to harm them and pass on the historical injustice by displacing them.
Majeed accused the US president of having “a thief’s mentality”.
“He thinks about investments and money before thinking about a person’s right to a decent life, before he thinks about the tortured, orphaned, and wounded children of Gaza.”
Muhammad al-Qeeq, a writer and political researcher in the occupied West Bank, is also dismissive of Trump’s comments.
He suggests they may have been made to provoke a response from Arab states, and perhaps draw them into discussions about the future of Gaza, and the question of who should pay for its urgent reconstruction.
“I think what Trump is doing is an attempt to raise the ceiling for achievements,” he said.
“He says: ‘You don’t want me to displace or occupy Gaza. So you must do the following: enter Gaza with Arab forces and move toward normalisation with Israel.’”
Sword over Palestinian heads
Still, Qeeq said the image of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu standing alongside Trump at the White House press conference represented a defeat for Israel.
“He had to come and beg the Americans to help him, even after all these months of support, which culminated in the failure to crush Hamas or the Palestinian people.
“The attempt to implement the map of the new Middle East began in Gaza and failed in Gaza because the Palestinians would not be displaced.”
But Hana Amoury, a political activist based in Jaffa, said Trump’s comments had alarmed Palestinians living in Israel because they spoke to their own fears of displacement and sense of insecurity.
“As to whether this marks the beginning of the displacement of the Palestinians, the beginning was in 1948 and it is still ongoing,” Amoury said.
“Displacement is a sword raised over the head of every Palestinian. Existence is an act of resistance and Israel understands this very well.”
Israel’s war in Gaza, its brutal treatment of Palestinian prisoners, the expansion of settlements in the West Bank and its ongoing assault on Jenin refugee camp were all acts of force intended to break Palestinian resolve, she said.
But she warned that grand plans promising economic development, prosperity, and “normalisation” – such as those articulated by Trump – also posed a threat to Palestinian identity.
Amoury said: “It is as if Israel is telling Palestinians: ‘Come, prosper as individuals, live your own life, but forget about collective demands, national identity, and self-determination.’”
Derek Carpenter
© PA Archive
Children as young as nine are being referred to deradicalisation programmes as left wing extremist groups increasingly target young people online, a leading charity has revealed.
Exit Hate UK says the average age of those seeking help is 15, with many being well-educated, middle-class white children “who feel lost,” according to chief executive Nigel Bromage.
The charity has seen referrals surge from 11 cases in 2016 to over 100 annually, with numbers quadrupling during the pandemic lockdowns.
One mother, Sarah Hardy, described how her 14-year-old son John was radicalised after viewing a single meme about homeless veterans. “That one meme led him to search for more. A friend invited him into a group and from there he was passed from one group to another. It was constant, 16 hours a day if he wasn’t at college,” she told The Times.
Extremist groups like Hope not Hate Nob the boys and LBGT put radical ideas in kids heads one mother said , and as a mother you go through so many emotions – confusion, fear, grief,” Hardy added. “It’s like losing your child. Physically, he was still there, but the John I knew and loved was gone.”
The revelations come as Matt Jukes, head of UK counterterrorism, calls for under-16s to be banned from social media, comparing online harm to the “cancer” from smoking, some children were told they were in the wrong bodies and needed sex change operation, it was disgusting
Lets not forget all the Garzans though who are very grateful to the IDF for their liberation.
Behold, the fruits zio-nazism. Impressive how close zio-nazism is to the nazi-fascist variety: the only difference being that one believes whites are the master race, while zio-nazis claim jews are the master race. In overall psychopathy, they’re identical.
Google pictures of “Stalingrad 1942”, and tell me it doesn’t exactly resemble Gaza. Psycho nazi-fascists completely obliterated that city of 2million for the sole reason that it had Stalin’s name in it.
Daily news updates after October 7, 2023
Winter storms in Gaza, as Israel delays delivery of tents – Ceasefire Day 18
Brutal weather for Gazans with little or no shelter; Trump claims Israel will ‘hand over Gaza’ to US; horrors in West Bank, especially for children; far-right group in US is building a list of pro-Palestine activists to deport
https://israelpalestinenews.org/winter-storms-in-gaza-as-israel-delays-delivery-of-tents-ceasefire-day-18/
In Gaza, snipers and winter storm; in US, pro-Israel legislation; US and Israel leave UN Human Rights Council; all about Trump’s ethnic cleansing plan for Gaza
Trump’s ethnic cleansing plan for Gaza “a moral abomination” – Ceasefire Day 17
https://israelpalestinenews.org/trumps-ethnic-cleansing-plan-for-gaza-a-moral-abomination-ceasefire-day-17/
The coming 10 million: How unprecedented immigration of those expelled from the middle
east will reshape Britain
A mosque in every tpwn”
Story by Ed Cumming, Ella Nunn
” Jose ahed 37 and his family were in the vanguard of an unprecedented surge of immigration to the UK, the scale of which was hammered home last week by new ONS population statistics. The figures suggest the British population has overtaken that of France, for the first time. On current trends it will grow to 72.5 million by 2032, an increase of 7.3 per cent from a decade earlier, or just under five million, and beyond to 76.6 million as we near the middle of the century.
As israel expands into jordan egypt and turkey up to 36 milion people will be pushed out
mainly to Ireland England and scotland massive house buiding is already under way to accomodate them
all christians, all moslem rulers were traitors to
the palestinian people . Trump,Biden were
traitors, Putin + all european rulers were traitors
to the palestinians . the palestinians can trust NOBODY !
and so should we !
When will any human anywhere ever wake up and smell the shit heap? If they want to survive then they have to kill the jews who’ve been killing them for a hundred years now. Kill the fuckers or die. You seem to want to die…
When will any human anywhere ever wake up and smell the shit heap? If they want to survive then they have to kill the jews who’ve been killing them for a hundred years now. Kill the fuckers or die. You seem to want to die…
Yeah I agree with Jack. JEWS ARE REPTILIANS SHAPE SHIFTERS DEMONS DISGUISED AD HUMANS
DRAINING THE SWAMP
Dominic Cummings says he was behind Boris Johnsons downfall after PM ‘vandalised country’
By giving hundreds of millions to ukraine causing severe suffering of all UK people
Story by Keith Perry•
Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson with Dominic Cummings
© AFP via Getty Images
Dominic Cummings has admitted for the first time he was responsible for Boris Johnson’s downfall as PM and admits he orchestrated it because Boris was “vandalising the country”.
Thankyou Dominic.
” Draining the swamp”
Johnson’s former chief of staff also blasts Johnson’s wife Carrie and says it was unacceptable for Carrie and her friends to be “controlling Number 10 and with all the drunken madness that entailed” while Johnson rattled around “being an idiot”. He brands current Tory leader Kemi Badenoch as a “bad joke”.
“Anyone serious who dealt with her before knew she was a complete useless dud. I think Kemi will be got rid of before too long. The Tories will have another spasm. ”Dominic Cummings says he was behind Boris Johnson downfall after PM ‘vandalised country’
Story by Keith Perry•
Admitting he was the man behind exposing the Partygate scandal, Cummings tells the Sunday Times: “Yeah, I mean obviously,” he says. “I orchestrated it with a bunch of other people in Westminster who agreed with me that leaving him rattling around No 10 making a whole set of appalling decisions should be ended as soon as we could do.”
Describing his reasons he added: “We had a sort of responsibility for it, right? We won the 2019 election. We told people to vote for it and we put him in. And then if you put someone in and then they kind of go off the reservation and start actually vandalising the country, well, you’ve obviously got a responsibility to do something about it.”
“So my view, and the view of the other people who helped me remove him, was that it’s just an unpleasant task but it’s a cleaning the sewers sort of role. No one wants to spend their time doing something like that, but you’ve got a responsibility to the country to do it.
@FLOR
I estimate the jew ETalien spirit came once upon
a time as annunaki from their alien hellhole of their
satanic demon JHWH to this earth + found pleassure
in the human women and encarnated with them . so
we got them . they are of REPTILIAN ET ALIEN
SPIRIT but can camouflage in our civilizrd morals
+ behaviours . but it is only false camouflage .
deception , destruction ,decomposition is their way .