A music teacher uses Gaza’s relentless soundtrack of war to resist Israel
A music teacher in Gaza has found a way to help others around him cope with the relentless and terrifying sounds and horrific effect of Israel’s genocidal war.
The nonstop buzz of Israeli drones overhead long predates the constant bursts of gunfire and explosions since the start of Israel’s war on the besieged enclave.
“In Gaza, there is no escape from the reality of war,” said Al Jazeera’s Ibrahim al-Khalili, reporting from Gaza City.
Many Palestinians living in Gaza City find the sound of them unbearable, he said, explaining that “it’s not just surveillance, it’s psychological warfare – a noise meant to unnerve, to break people down.”
Music teacher Ahmed Abu Amsha has found a creative way to help those feeling distressed by the threatening buzzing above, by turning this sound meant to torment into something positive: A song.
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“Carry, carry - carry beauty with pride.
May Allah surround you with His protection.
The m@rtyr’s blood is perfumed with cardamom.
Night, oh night!
Woe, woe to the oppressor - woe upon him.
Woe to him from Allah.
The stars of the night cry.
I am the one who heals his wounds.
Woe, woe to the oppressor - woe upon him.
I am the one who heals his wounds.
Carry, carry - carry beauty with pride.
May Allah surround you with His protection.
The m@rtyr’s bl00d is perfumed with cardamom.
Night, oh night.”
Red Cross chief says mass evacuation of Gaza City ‘impossible’
The Red Cross chief has denounced Israel’s plans for a forced mass expulsion of Gaza City before a military takeover, insisting there was no way it could be done safely.
“It is impossible that a mass evacuation of Gaza City could ever be done in a way that is safe and dignified under the current conditions,” International Committee of the Red Cross President Mirjana Spoljaric Egger said, describing the evacuation plan as “not only unfeasible but incomprehensible”.
Vehicles loaded with the belongings of displaced Palestinian families drive along a coastal road by the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza
Misery awaits those fleeing Israel’s Gaza City offensive
Many Palestinians have been forced to flee by Israel’s intensified offensive on Gaza City, with many setting up makeshift tents amid miserable conditions in an area west of Nuseirat refugee camp to the south.
“We are thrown in the streets like what would I say? Like dogs? We are not like dogs. Dogs are better than us,” Mohammed Maarouf, 50, told The Associated Press news agency, standing in front of his tent.
He and his family of nine had already been displaced from the northern town of Beit Lahiya. “We have no homes. We are on the streets,” he said.
Ahmad Saadeh, originally from Beit Hanoon, told the AP that Palestinians were suffering from hunger, sickness and a lack of shelter in the war-ravaged territory, where famine conditions were recently confirmed.
“We suffer from many things,” he said. “We suffer that our children are ill.”
