Bisan Owda
Hi everyone it's Bisan from Gaza. I am still alive. Alhamdullah...
Its been 107 days of genocide, 15 weeks, 2568 hours of killing us, takin our homes and lands in Gaza , and forcing us to choose between leaving or death... and sometimes we can't even choose. The Israeli strikes simply kill us without any warnings.
Now we are without an connection, neither the internet nor the cellular, we can't reach each other's inside Gaza, we don't know if our families and friends are alive or not, wounded or not, still in their places or not!
We take hours of walking and searching to reach someone, while moving became very risky! We can't reach to you as well! The footage, information and news from Gaza are not reaching you as before because the Israeli army intentionally destroys the signal towers and servers even using E-SIM request being in a high place which is very risky! I borrowed this vest to upload this post.
I am not scared of death but of being displaces, scared of losing my family or friends, scared of being wounded and can't have treatment because the health system is collapsed in Gaza, and to die in pain! I am not scared of the destruction. I lost my workplace, my home and my family's work place and source of income. I am terrified of being killed by an occupier and to be , one oppressed Bisan of a whole occupied people.
The strongest governments and weapons manufacturers are supporting this genocide against my people, and you are our only hope. STRIKE globally and call for a ceasefire! , protest, stop the economic movements and make pressure on your countries to stand against this and stop it. If ISRAhell don't find the financial and weapons support, or governments to hide their crimes they will be forced to stop the genocide!
Go to the streets, protest and globally strike for a week - 21-28 January. YALLA. Brave and free people of the world, CEASEFIRE NOW.
22 January 2024
Reproduced with permission of author.
Bisan Owda is a videographer, film-maker, photographer, storyteller, community activist, content creator and trainer from Gaza, Palestine. She broadcasts a show titled, Hakawatia, through Roya Tv and other platforms. She is creator of “Tell Lab,” a youth platform to train young people, particularly women, on advocacy, content creation, and community leadership and works with civil society organizations as a trainer on community leadership, gender, youth, climate change and advocacy. Bisan, also known as wizard_bisan1 on social media, is a dedicated journalist documenting Israel's genocidal assault on Gaza and communicating this to the world.
‘Eid Mubarak’.
They say that tomorrow is Eid, summer is gone, winter has arrived, then New Year, then summer again, Ramadan and Eid, and I stumble every day in a whole world designed from my nightmares.
There are a thousand soldiers and a thousand shells between me and my home.
BUT.. I carry stubbornness mixed with the soil of the village to which I originate, in northern Gaza, and my stubbornness tells me: Gaza is the most beautiful place on earth, and the most deserving of life.
We will rebuild it, even if it took 100 years, that is why we were created. Inshallah every year will my land be mine, my sea be mine, and my sky be mine.
Eid Mubarak..
First published by Bisan Owda, Twitter/X, April 10, 2024 @Wizard_bisan1
Republished with previous permission of Bisan Owda
