Gaza's New Normal: The Horrors of Genocide


While the rest of the world is busy with their normal lives, there are about 2.3 million people, for whom the whole definition of ‘normal’ has changed - a normalisation of once inconceivable horrors. 

For the past two months, for them, it has become a new normal:

• to hear the non-stop and deafening sounds of bombs 

• to see the reduction of their once-standing havens (homes, businesses, schools, hospitals) to desolate rubbles.

It has become agonisingly routine:

• to witness continuously, the demise of their family members, relatives and friends

• to starve, to just have a few sips of water in days

• to sleep under the open sky

• to just run for their lives

In this stark reality, the once unimaginable has become customary:

• to hear cries for help from under the rubbles of weighty concrete of what was once the very place where one could stay safe

• to flee for safety (which of course, is nowhere)

• to see the new-borns throwing their arms around in their incubators, and then go still, forever

• to carry the injured in their arms, and see them breath their last

• to bury the dead, not just in ones, but in masses

• to hallucinate while awake

• to abruptly wake up frightened

It has become normal to die, nay, to be KILLED!


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Author: Faiz Anwar

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