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Gaza will not forget, Palestine will remember

Sunday Island

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October 19, 2025

The suffocating smoke still hangs over Gaza's ruins, thick with the acrid stench of explosives powder and dust carrying the scent of betrayal and the mark of courage. Her streets, once filled with children's laughter, became Israeli fields of slaughter. Now they echo with the names and memories of martyrs.

- BY JAMAL KANJ

The mass graves, the broken concrete, and the twisted steel are not just evidence of Zionist hatred. They are witnesses to those who stood with her, and to those who failed her. Today, Gaza's rubble holds more memories than all the nation's libraries together.

Palestine will remember

She will remember the selfless sacrifices of doctors and healthcare workers who refused to abandon their sick patients as bombs rained on their hospitals; the journalists who became the news, targeted for daring to expose the truth; the mothers who wrapped their children in the red-black-green-and-white flag of a nation Israel is desperate to erase. These are not tales of despair, but of defiance, insisting on its right to breathe life amid death.

Gaza will not forget

She will not forget the silence of Western democracies. In a tragic inversion, most European nations, shackled by the ghosts of their past, traded morality for absolution. The self-proclaimed champions of human rights offered Palestinians on the altar of yesterday's victims to atone for Europe's sins.

Gaza will not forget the Biden administration, which vetoed every UN Security Council resolution calling to end the genocide. Nor Donald Trump, who poured fuel on the fire, then demanded recognition for dousing his own flames.

This week, Arab, Muslim, and world leaders like moths around the American arsonist-turned-firefighter, "celebrating" the ashes of Gaza.

Palestine will remember

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