They are killed while feeling hungry and thirsty.

I hate that our kids and loved ones have become short films and poems.

Because many of my people refused to leave the northern part of Gaza, their punishment is being starved to death.

Not only are my countrymen slaughtered every day. But they are killed while feeling hungry
And thirsty.
And after they are killed, we can find no decent place to bury them. Sometimes it becomes late and there are many of them in the open. It starts to rain, and they feel cold. We just want them to be warm in the belly of our homeland.
It breaks my heart.

A country that exists only in my mind. Its flag has no room to fly freely, but there is space on the coffins of my countrymen.”

Do you remember Nasim Abu Shidiq, my wife’s uncle? Yes, he was killed by an Israeli sniper on December 10. (Nasim was born deaf and mute)
Yesterday night, the house where his wife, Ro’a, and her two orphaned kids were staying at, her family house, was bombed.
Ro’a was slightly injured, but one of her kids got a piece of shrapnel in his head, the other, a year old, was about to die of asphyxia, but luckily she woke up from her coma today morning.
One of Ro’a’s brother died in the attack. Her sister-in-law, nine-months pregnant, also died in the attack. Doctors succeeded in getting the baby out, but the baby died after two hours.
A nephew of Ro’a, 12 years old, also lost his life.
Ro’a’s mother is in critical condition. She may lose her life any moment.
Nasim is dying again and again.

I’ve just finished watching a video of a physician from my city who was kidnapped from the Ahli Hospital and stayed handcuffed and blindfolded for 45 days. He was released yesterday.
He was weeping as he was sharing his experience. Something that he said the broke my heart and body, “They didn’t allow us to drink water for 6 days.”

– Mosab Abu Toha (@MosabAbuToha)