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Every child in Gaza is me.
Every mother and father is me.
Every house is my heart.
Every tree is my leg.
Every plant is my arm.
Every flower is my eye.
Every hole in the earth
is my wound.

• Mosab Abu Toha, Palestinian poet, short story writer, and essayist from Gaza.
• Forest of Noise, (dedication).

"When everything is lost, what remains? For Mosab Abu Toha, it's poetry. He shares how his verses capture the grief and resilience of Gaza in the mids of destruction."
- Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha: breaking free with words / The Take, (anbefalt lenke).

A ROSE SHOULDERS UP

Don't ever be surprised
to see a rose shoulder up
among the ruins of the house:
This is how we survived.

• Mosab Abu Toha.
  Mosab Abu Toha is a Palestinian poet from Gaza.

"Abubaker had never left Gaza. For nearly 560 days, he reported for different outlets, documenting the destruction around him and the killing of Palestinians."
- 'I'm broken inside': A young journalist's painful story of leaving Gaza / Abubaker Abed / Real Talk,(anbefalt lenke).

"This is the second Nakba, except it's larger and it's broadcasted live on television."
- Hani Mahmoud.
- Gaza's ongoing Nakba / Between Us, (anbefalt lenke).

"As Palestinians in Gaza remeber the violent displacement of the 1948 Nakba, 77 years on."
- Gaza's ongoing Nakba / Between Us (anbefalt lenke).

"Palestinians who survived the Nakba 77 years ago, are suffering from displacement all over again."
- Palestinian elder lived through Nakba in 1948 and endures ongoing Gaza war, (anbefalt lenke).

"It's true that our house in Gaza is destroyed, but our home is not destroyed."
- Palestinian Poet Mosab Abu Toha Is Documenting War in Verse, (anbefalt lenke).

"Please save this poem, recite to the people around you and tell them what happened to my home, and the homes of so many other people? Tell them some families were buried under the rubble?"

• Mosab Abu Toha, Gaza.

What Is Home?

What is home:
it is the shade of trees on my way to school
before they were uprooted.
It is my grandparents' black-and-white wedding
photo before the walls crumbled.
It is my uncle's prayer rug, where dozens of ants
slept on wintry nights, before it was looted and
put in a museum.
It is the oven my mother used to bake bread and
roast chicken before a bomb reduced our house
to ashes.
It is the cafe where I watched fotball matches
and played--

My child stops me: Can a four-letter word hold
all of these?

• Mosab Abu Toha.
• Palestinian poet, fiction writer, and essayist from Gaza.

"Dabble your hands
in the water
and
catch your poem's words.

Write the words up on
the clouds.
Don't worry, they will find
their land."

Memorize Your Dream

Close your eyes
and
walk on the ocean.

Dabble your hands
in the water
and
catch your poem's words.

Write the words up on
the clouds.
Don't worry, they will find
their land.

Open your eyes.
In the night,
the sea is no longer blue.

Look around and from
the descending
raindrops
pick your punctuation marks.

Put on your swimsuit,
dive deep down
and look for a title
for your epic.

Embark on your
moving homland---
your boat.

Go to your bed
and, in your sleep,
begin to memorize
your dream.

• Mosab Abu Toha.
• Palestinian poet, fiction writer, and essayist from Gaza.

A ROSE SHOULDERS UP

Don't ever be surprised
to see a rose shoulder up
among the ruins of the house:
This is how we survived.

• Mosab Abu Toha

Sunrise in Palestine

The smoke of bombs
dropped from F-16s
has covered the city's sky.

Fighters smuggle the sunlight
through tunnels
beneath our houses.

• Mosab Abu Toha

"My son asks me whether,
when we return to Gaza,
I could get him a puppy.
I say, "I promise, if we can find any."

I ask my son if he wishes to become
a pilot when he grows up.
He says he won't wish
to drop bombs on people and houses."

• Mosab Abu Toha
  "Under the Rubble"

"This is a segment from The Electronic Intifada's livestream on day 566 of the Gaza genocide."
- Non-stop Israeli massacres as Gaza starves, with Nora Barrows-Friedman, The Electronic Intifada (anbefalt lenke).

"Israel is turning Gaza into a place where no life can survive - not by accident, but through deliberate design."
- How Israel is engineering genocide and ethnic cleansing in Gaza / Eyal Weizman / UNAPOLOGETIC (anbefalt lenke).

"This didn't start on October 7th."

• "A CARTOGRAPHY OF GENOCIDE"
• Examining the design, intent and strategy of Israel's genocide in Gaza / Eyal Weizman / UNAPOLOGETIC, (anbefalt lenke).

"What we're witnessing is not a conflict it's a massacre."

• The cruel Face of Israel - The Patience of Palestine & The Promise of Allah / Denzel Washington, (anbefalt lenke).

"Denzel Washington delivers a moving message that exposes the bias of Western media in portraying Palestine and its people. Discover how mainstream narratives often label Palestinian resistance as terrorism while ignoring the deeper historical context and legitimate struggle for freedom."
- How Western Media Frames Palestine as Terrorists vs. the Reality of Resistance / DENZEL WASHINGTON, (anbefalt lenke).