Lubna Masarwa – Middle East Eye April 7, 2025
I am sitting in a coffee shop in Jaffa.
One of the oldest cities in the world, Jaffa – Yafa in Arabic – was once a flourishing Palestinian metropolis on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea, with its own cultural life, newspapers, publishing houses, cinemas and theatres.
Today, however, it has been reduced to a suburb of Tel Aviv.
Israeli Jews live in gated communities while Palestinians are pushed out by prices that only affluent Ashkenazis can afford.
Anywhere else, this would be called gentrification, but in Israel, this population transfer has an ethnic flavour.
The coffee shop I’m in is teeming with customers. It’s just another day in the busy life of secular Israel.
Parallel lives
A woman near me sips her coffee while holding a yoga mat. A couple nearby are discussing a play they saw the day before at a theatre. They’re also planning their Passover dinner, as the holiday is fast approaching.
This could be a scene out of any western capital. But here, the ordinary unfolds just an hour’s drive away from Gaza, where the unimaginable has become routine.
At this point, I glance at my iPhone.
Every morning for more than 18 months, Ahmed has been messaging me from Khan Younis.
“Tonight, 19 people were killed in the bombing of tents and homes here. I have done three interviews and collected photos and video material,” Ahmed writes.
“Are you interested?” he asks, his question carrying a desperate poignancy.
Like everyone in Gaza, Ahmed knows the world has grown comfortable with the nightly carnage. Beheaded babies, families burned alive in their tents – this is the new normal.
So, is anyone really interested in what goes on every night in Gaza? It’s a good question. I’d like to say yes. But in all honesty, I can’t.
Ahmed is critically injured, yet he never misses a day to report on the daily horrors.
While I’m watching Ahmed’s video – little bodies covered with white fabric, many children’s faces exposed – the Israeli couple nearby are deciding whether to host the holiday dinner with her family or his.
In another clip on my phone, a little girl is among the survivors. At least 39,384 children in Gaza have lost one or both parents since the beginning of Israel’s assault.
A woman addresses the camera: “What did she do to Israel? Is anyone listening?”
Where I’m sitting, we’re surrounded by hospitals. Why aren’t the doctors rushing to save the people in Gaza? It’s only an hour away.
Instead, the Israeli army is busy killing paramedics – and then covering up the fact.
The Israeli newspaper of record, Haaretz, reports that it’s “common practice” for the army to bury their victims, as they did when they fired on a convoy of ambulances with their lights flashing.
“As for the testimonies that the soldiers buried the bodies and vehicles in the sand, the army claims that this is a common practice intended to prevent stray and feral dogs from harming the bodies,” the report reads.
How many other bodies has the army killed and buried? The terror of killing people and then burying them has become normalised – just another line in this allegedly liberal newspaper.
Stream of horror
The news from Gaza never stops.
At 4am that morning, I received a message from Ruwaida, a young Palestinian woman who used to teach science in an elementary school: “The situation is very, very scary. The heavy bombing does not stop. I cannot sleep at night because of the intensity of the bombing.
“I am afraid that my heart will stop from the intensity of the fear and panic because the dangerous area they are working on as a new axis is adjacent to my area. If something happens to me, do not forget me and talk about me a lot. I am not a number; I am a very big story.”
Ali, from northern Gaza, says his family went to sleep hungry. There was no food, no wheat, no wood to make a fire.
“It’s hard with the little ones,” he said. “It’s hard to see them hungry. I spent all day wandering around to find something to buy – a kilo of sugar cost 50 shekels, that’s if you can even find it.”
Muhammad, from another area in Gaza, asked me if all the children killed so far were not enough for the world to stop the killing. What else needs to happen for the world to break its silence and end this horror?
Last week, 17-year-old Walid Khalid Abdullah Ahmad died in Israeli detention from what were likely signs of “starvation, dehydration from colitis-induced diarrhoea, and infectious complications – all compounded by prolonged malnutrition and denial of life-saving medical intervention,” according to Defence for Children International-Palestine.
His father told Middle East Eye that Walid dreamed of becoming a football player. He also hoped to complete his studies abroad, specialising in finance and banking. He wanted to return to help his country. He had many ambitions, but the Israeli occupation buried them all, his father said.
Legal complicity
Last month, Israel’s Supreme Court dismissed a petition filed by human rights organisations demanding that the state be obliged to provide adequate and consistent humanitarian aid to Gaza.
Israel’s decision in early March to completely block the entry of aid and to renew the war was ignored by the court.
These are the decisions made every day by the judicial system that thousands of Israelis are fighting to protect in the name of democracy.
Liberal Israelis take to the streets to defend the High Court – the same court that rejected an appeal to allow aid into Gaza, thereby legitimising mass starvation.
I look at my iPhone again, which has become the Grim Reaper of news from Gaza.
A man from northern Gaza messages: “We are very weak, we are not eating, and our immune systems are weak.
“I paid $10 for one egg. My daughter is three years old and needs milk and essential food,” he adds.
The world, however, chooses to ignore such pleas. Instead – just like Israelis – it has decided to watch on in silence, and carry on with life as usual.
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Lubna Masarwa is a journalist and Middle East Eye’s Palestine and Israel bureau chief, based in Jerusalem.
wars and rumours of wars Matt 24;6-13
The celebrated 100 year old veteran of ww 2
said on TV ” i was an expert shot so was put in charge of a machine gun battery”
he went on “we decided among ourselves not to kill men who like us, we just obeying a criminal government
so we decided only to shoot to wound” some men would only shoot to miss.
One day a big German guy carrying a rifle was running up the hill toward us, my colleague said
” look at this silly arse, charging a machine gun, give a burst right beside him
he was not deterred and was getting close, “my colleague said my god we are going to have to shoot him”
so i shot him in the legs, so that after the war he could go back to his family.”
Typical jew behaviour. I sometimes think that during the war of the annihilation of Germany ( 1914 – 1950 ) , the jews must have been in a permanent state of total delight at so many goyim being murdered and Europe and Japan being destroyed.
If you are British this is familiar: one of the Carry On films has a tea party going on while bullets are flying and bombs are going off. It meant that standards will be kept up no matter what
There are many sayings about jews….most based on fact.
I “like” the one originating in Poland…..which is something like…”The jew cries out in pain as he beats you”
If only more of the public knew about their massacres.
Strategically it was a sound move to fill Europe with .Muslims….because they will eventually clash with Christians making Muslims all the more unpopular.
They’ve been doing this for centuries…and now they have the audacity to run Trump as president…..7x bankruptcy….just the sort of jew-idiot you want running your country at this time.
TRUMP…YES HE IS A CRYPTO JEW…..no question
Only problem is there is no ‘genocide’ going on. Its all a hoax just like Oct 7 or the holocaust. The Palestinians have been evacuated out of Gaza & are being transported to the West. As that nico guy quips: ‘they’re all in on it’.
Zionist King Charles’ speech to the Italian Goverment was as I expected, fanatical pro-war and one lie after another, regarding WWI, WWII, NATO’s Zionist Ukrainian War against Christian Russia and climate change, a thoroughly evil monarch. He should have made his address in sackcloth and ashes, pleading forgiveness, for himself and his mother’s leading roles in the Zionist Covid Genocide Agenda, in promoting European and International wars, the climate change swindle, the false Jewish holocaust, a Zionist One World Government and a Zionist One World Religion. His perverted relationship with paedophile Jimmy Savile, and his Zionist controlled Police Force, Security Services and Zionist Government protecting Britain’sAsian rape gangs. He said, Wars promote jobs, which gave an insight into his Black Zionist Soul. Adolf Hitler fought against Satanic Zionist Communism, Britain, the British Commonwealth, and the Allies fought for it. King Charles said, You can never take peace for granted, Was he threatening the Zionist Italian Government or informing them that it was Italy’s turn for a war?
Over forty years ago, Prince Charles was overjoyed when he received absolute proof that the King of Kings, Revelation 19:16, was English, until he realised that he was not a Black Hearted Zionist.
DISGUSTING
“They cannot mix with any other nation but live as parasites among the nations, suck out their blood, embezzle their property, corrupt their morals.” –Al-Husseini; Grand Mufti of Jerusalem; Nazi Ally
“It doesn’t matter if 98% of a cup is filled with the purest spring water if the remaining 2% is the deadliest of poisons, because the whole cup is made TOXIC.” – SonOfEnos
We will never bow a knee to the JEW WORLD ORDER
Trump and the Kosher-Crew are COMPROMISED
Yukon Jack, SonOfEnos
https://grizzom.blogspot.com/2025/04/trump-and-kosher-crew-are-compromised.html
Pepe Escobar: Russia, Iran, China Join Forces — U.S. in the Crosshairs?
Dialogue Works
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSHCZ7cXa0Q
Trump and the Kosher-Crew are COMPROMISED
Yukon Jack, SonOfEnos
https://grizzom.blogspot.com/2025/04/trump-and-kosher-crew-are-compromised.html
Israel’s latest vision for Gaza has a name: Concentration camp
Unable to immediately expel Gazans en masse, Israel seems intent on forcing them into a confined zone — and letting starvation and desperation do the rest.
Two weeks ago, the right-wing Israeli journalist Yinon Magal posted the following on X: “This time, the IDF intends to evacuate all residents of the Gaza Strip to a new humanitarian zone that will be arranged for long-term stay, will be enclosed, and anyone entering it will first be checked to ensure they are not a terrorist. The IDF will not allow a rogue population to refuse evacuation this time. Anyone remaining outside the humanitarian zone will be implicated. This plan has American backing.”
The very same day, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz released a video statement hinting at something similar. “Residents of Gaza, this is your final warning,” he said. “The Air Force’s attack on Hamas terrorists was just the first step. The next phase will be far harsher, and you will pay the full price. Soon, the evacuation of the population from combat zones will resume.
https://www.972mag.com/israel-gaza-concentration-camp-expulsion/
And so the status quo continues: massacres; forced expulsion; imprisonment without habeas corpus; bombing into rubble; starvation. On and on…
And some Israelis sit and look down upon the death and destruction done by their country/ As spectators, they enjoy the show. They cheer it. On and on…
Some of the “Most moral army in the world.” celebrate shooting and hitting a Palestinian. A target. The soldiers literally show how pleased to do so. On and on…
And in America, some Americans sit and watch sports, sip beer and celebrate the combatants. These Americans never see the squalor, the mutilated, amputated, the starving, the misery to which their government contributes. On and on…
The Zionist censorship, in co-ordination with American mainstream media, largely jewish owned and controlled, wants this status quo to continue. For, if no crime is reported, shown… then no crime is committed, no criminal charged or prosecuted. On and on…
Israel wants this status quo to continue. On and on… Object? Only an anti-semite objects. State the objection with any emotion? Hate speech.
How the IZC, or International Zionist Conglomerate builds is tyranny, uses its tyranny to the ruination of the West. Ask Ursula Haverbeck. Ask James Forrestal. Ask John F. Kennedy. Ask Jeremy Corbyn. Ask Jullian Assange. Ask Alex Odeh. Ask… on and on and on…
Of course, it’s horrible, but there are natural questions: Where are the “brotherly” arab countries? Why palestinians were among the most active elements to topple anti-“israeli” Bashar Al-Asad govt in Syria and replace it with the present “Israel”-friendly ISIS one? Why the palestinian resistance has it’s headquarters in Qatar, the same Qatar from where take off planes bombing the only people, Yemenis, who try to help the palestinians?
“So, is anyone really interested in what goes on every night in Gaza?”
I am. As I sit in my comfortable abode, I never forget what others are having to endure.
Just a question to the author of this article, Lubna Masarwa: some time ago I was speaking to a young Palestinian lady. I presume, BTW, you are also a Palestinian. It was in a big european city – my interloquter, the well educated Palestinian lady I just mentioned was litteraly jumping up and down angry at the former Syrian govt because according to her “they didn’t shoot one single bullet to liberate the Golan Heights”. I’m asking you now:-How many bullets shot the present Syrian govt to liberate the Golan Heights? And yet you were very active toppling the former govt and installing the present one. And what is doing Mahmoud Abbas about the Gaza tragedy? And what about your shenanigans with amerikike-zionist prostitute the qatari regim?
True, the world is watching the sloughter in Gaza like something completely normal. Because for them it is completely normal – your “people of the book” have what they call “The Holy Writ”.
And the “god” of that “Holy Writ” the old testament “god” orders litterally to kill women, children and anymals. So, “the people of the book” who btw are the best friends of your arab “brothers” are doing something they were orderd to do by their “god”. Everything fair and square.
I have a deep disgust of all our western politicians, our
MSM traitors, of our young “intelectual” leftistgreen/FFF+
Rothschilds climate agents + the warmonger fanatics for
jewNazi second israel Ukraine + other silencers .
ISRAHELL NUKES NOT ONLY ENEMIES ! think about .
look how they hate the palestinians bombing
civilian refugees, women + children in their tents .
imagine how gladly they would like to nuke germany
they hate much more . look how they nuked Tartus ,
Beirut port, Bali, Fukushima , Yemen + WTC NY 9.11
AsskeNAZIChasars are the enemies of humanity ! they
say they need antiAsskeNAZIsm (arabs are real semites) .
are they psychic perverts ? sadomasochists ?
Unbeknownst due to the ignorance of many Zionist Christians, 50 million in US and countless others elsewhere in the world, these are not the ppl of G*d but belong to the SynaGOGue of Satan. (Rev. 2:9)
The following is quoted from a book written by Russian Count Arthur Cherep-Spiridovich (1858 — 22 Oct. 1926), a Tsarist general and white Russian loyalist who immigrated to the US after the Russian Bolshevik Revolution. His book(s) speaking strongly for Christ and against the Bolshevik Khazarian Mafia (KM) whom he was very familiar with may have been the cause of his death in the same year it was published?
His book, The Secret World Government or “The Hidden Hand”, The Unrevealed in History, 100 Historical “Mysteries” Explained (1926), Chapter 1, p.2, A War Is But a “Legalized Mass-Murder” states:
Thus far, the war in Gaza to include all the murders of the Arabic peoples of Palestine by Israel have been anything but legalised mass murder. Cherep-Spiridovich continued on p.3, When is Christian Civilization in Deadly Danger?:
We see even today, 99 years later that much of Christianity has been hoodwinked into Zionism just as much as Count Cherep-Spiridovich observed in his time, especially in the US.
Today we see Zionist clerics such as the spiritually blinded John Hagee, so given over to the love of his KM lord’s money that he now owns a 7,600 acre Texan ranch with choice facilities, to include a motel, several large houses, and 2 business class jets on his own private airfield. Yet he utters his verbal nonsense condemning the Palestinians, many who are Christians and vindicating their murderers. The Count continued:
Note, the Asiatics he is referring to are the Bolshevik Ashkenazi Jews, who today are murdering the Palestinians. The Count continued:
Matthew 13:15 states, For this people’s heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them. (KJV)
Does this refer to all Jews? No, but similar to the Zionist Christians who behave as though they do not believe in the purity of life they have been called to, so it is with many Jews. Yet G*d has this to say:
Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world. James 1:27 (KJV)
Yet, both Zionist Christian and a good number of Jews support harming the fatherless and widows who are already in affliction in Gaza.
Thus saith the LORD: Execute ye justice and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor; and do no wrong, do no violence, to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place. Jeremiah 22:3 (Jewish Publication Society)
@DAVE RICHARDSON
may you once come into your lifethreatening
situation + find crossed by others cynism over you !
people like you facilitate evil jew spirit in this world .
PISS OFF !
the 100 year old soldier who during the war
only shot to would was Harry Patch
Dear Lubna Masarwa,
I waited for your answer but it didn’t come. Well, it’s typical of the Palestinians, I remember I had a palestinian friend. Once we were speaking on the phone and he asked my opinion about the situation in Syria(the old Syria).I told him without dodging that in my opinion Bashar Al-Asad should stay in power. He was not very happy with my answer because like most palestinians he was very much AGAINST the “nussairi govt” as he put it… And when we called me next time I asked him what was his opinion about Bahrein. Ans when he asked me why all of a sudden i was speaking about Bahrein i told him that last time he spoke in the same way about Syria. He just hang up and that was the end of friendship.
Yes, and I remember very well Khaled Meshal waiving the three red star banner of the present day rulers of Syria and many other similar things. You say indignantly that people don’t pay attention to the massacre of your people and just sip their coffe. Well i’ll sip my coffe henceforth and will begin to think about the palestinian children only AFTER the govts of Bahrein, UAE, Qatar,Syria and the rest of your arab “brothers”will begin to do the same…
Dear Lubna Masarwa,
I just forgot to tell you something. In my previous post i spoke of a palestinian friend of myne.
So this same friend was litteraly dancing out of joy when a Hizbullah or an Iranian soldier were killed. Such ungratfulness i never saw in my life – those young men were giving their lives to help your people yet for my palestinian friend they and the Syrian alawites were worse than the kikes because thay were shia, nussairi and what not, in other words mortal enemy. I remember once I read an article by Khaled Amayre(he kicked the bucket recently) from the West Bank where he said litterally: – It’s much better to live under the zionist occupation than to live under a shia govt…..
So that’s your choice – keep living under a zionist occupation and stop complaining about the massacre of your children because your situation is perfectly all right for you and your arab “brethren”.
Correction to my post, “St. Matthew’s XXIII, 15” is not Matthew 13:15 (although a good reference) but:
“Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.” Matthew 23:15 (KJV)
That “twofold more the child of hell” succinctly describes these Scythian Talmudic Bolshevik Israelis and many (not all) Jews today.
Bloody Zion, Refuting the Jewish Fables That Sustain Israel’s War Against God and Man, 2012 by Edward Hendrie states in Chapter 21 – The Tyranny of Zionism:
“One million Arabs are not worth a Jewish fingernail.” By Rabbi Yaacov Perrin, NY Daily News, Feb. 28, 1994, p.6
Thy tongue deviseth destruction; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully*.
Thou lovest evil more than good; falsehood rather than speaking righteousness. Selah
Thou lovest all devouring words, the deceitful tongue.
God will likewise break thee for ever, He will take thee up, and pluck thee out of thy tent, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah Psalms 52:2-5 (Jewish Publication Society)
*By Way of Deception Thou Shalt Do War.
@Stu
“The Zionist mind has no moral compass. The ends justifies the means.”
That is absolutely true concerning not only zionist but kike mind in general. And the christian mind as well – christians worldwide worship the same cruel, vengeful, pscopathic kike “god” of the old testament which orders his followers to kill women, children and animals. What is going on in Gaza is a massacre perpetrated by kikes and christians TOGETHER- both of them just follow the ordes of their old testament “god”.
“One million Arabs are not worth a Jewish fingernail.” By Rabbi Yaacov Perrin, NY Daily News, Feb. 28, 1994, p.6
Indeed. Not just one million arabs but 300 million arabs are watching calmly what is going on in Gaza and don’t give a damn about the sloughterd children of their “brothers”.