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Gaza April 2025 [1]
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Date: 2025-04-26
There hasn’t been much information in Daily Kos recently about Gaza. Perhaps an article from the Guardian (4//24/25) can fill the gap.
It begins with the headline Dozens of my family have been killed by Israel in Gaza, and now Ziyad too. Only one thing gives me solace. The author, Ghada Ageel, from Gaza and currently a visiting political science professor in Canada, provides this background from 2023:
On 26 October 2023, bombs rained down on our residential quarter in Khan Younis without warning, killing more than 60 people – 45 of them members of my family. My family’s story echoes those of countless families across Gaza whose lives have been shrouded in the darkness of this genocide. My family was not collateral damage. They were teachers, doctors, students, engineers, social workers, mothers and children – each one snuffed out too early. I’ve long since stopped counting those I’ve lost.
Professor Ageel continues with recent details:
These attacks come mostly at night, when people steal what sleep they can from the endless explosions and cries for help. Since Israel cut off the electricity supply to Gaza, their light and noise pierces the intense darkness that falls after sundown. And it was the middle of the night when a missile struck the home of [her cousin] Ziyad’s family. The multistorey building had five apartments, all filled with people – three of Ziyad’s siblings and their families, and several displaced family members who had sought shelter there after losing their homes. Ziyad seems to have been killed instantly. His wife, Samah, and four children – Abboud, Duha, Leen and Obada – were wounded.
Professor Ageel gives this detail about her cousin Ziyad, who had been a social worker for UNRWA, working with vulnerable families in Gaza’s refugee camps.
Months earlier, Ziyad was abducted by the Israeli army from the home he eventually died in, and held for several months. When he was finally released, he couldn’t recognise Khan Younis, where he grew up. The destruction was so complete it obliterated most familiar landmarks of the city and camp. The streets he had once known were unrecognisable ruins.
Ghada Ageel tells of her family’s relationship to Khan Younis:
Khan Younis camp is where my grandparents sought refuge in 1948 after the Nakba, and my family has lived there ever since.
In addition to information about her family members, Ghada Ageel provides this information:
According to Unicef, 15,600 Palestinian children have been killed in Gaza since 7 October 2023; nearly 600 children have been killed and more than 1,600 injured since Israel resumed its assaults on 18 March. Entire family lines have been erased, homes turned into graves.
To see the whole illustrated article, please use this link: www.theguardian.com/...
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