Lon

“How devastating is it that we live in a world where the killing of babies and children is allowed just because they’re Palestinian? And protesting and saying this is wrong might get you suspended from work or school just because it hurts the emotions of the killer. Have we become so dehumanized that killing has become justified and normalized?”
― Plestia Alaqad, The Eyes of Gaza: A Diary of Resilience

“Maybe they later died, hungry and left for dust by the rest of the world – a world that still stands by, complacent, allowing the Israelis to get away with Genocide. Because that’s what it is now. The world can’t pretend that there are two sides here any more. There is no humanity, no equity, no semblance of justice. It’s a calculated, deliberate and ruthless ethnic cleansing, and nobody seems to care enough.”
― Plestia Alaqad, The Eyes of Gaza: A Diary of Resilience

“in Gaza, we’re just one big family, bonded by trauma. That’s all there is.”
― Plestia Alaqad, The Eyes of Gaza: A Diary of Resilience

“she saw things with her eyes while I felt them through the thin skin of my heart.”
― Daisy Alpert Florin, My Last Innocent Year