The testimony of suffering. Kayed Hammad is a translator living in the Al-Nasser neighborhood of the Gaza Strip, who “envies the dead” because they can finally stop suffering. Every ten minutes on average a Palestinian dies, every ten minutes a Palestinian gets a rest.
This is how he described the situation on the ground in an interview for TV3. Desolation and uncertainty is what predominates in the houses of the survivors who still manage to stand. This is not the case with him, since his was bombed and he has had to take refuge in another house where his stay is not guaranteed. “I have nowhere to stay, I have nothing left,” Hammad laments.
The Palestinian survivor, speaking at a historical level of the conflict, recounts the suffering that his people have experienced since 1948 under the constant threat of Israel and, for about 17 years, comments that the conflict in the Gaza Strip has intensified, question that he calls unbearable.
“We use refrigerated trucks to store the bodies so we can bury them in the future. There are still more than 1,200 people under the rubble and 50% of them are children,”
When asked about the imminent ground attack proposed by Beniamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel: “The worst thing you can do is confront someone who has nothing to lose. I don’t care that Netanyahu comes in, that he comes. I don’t care if I die for missile from a plane or a tank, there is nothing left to lose. We will fight as best we can until the end.”
The majority of the population has been forced to evacuate to the south of Gaza, leaving their lives behind and where the situation is most precarious. “I don’t have running water or electricity, I have bottles of non-drinking water and that’s what we get by,” said the Palestinian translator. Furthermore, the food resources available to them are very scarce. Despite this, Hammad comments that “this situation makes you lose your appetite.” “I have only been able to get some cake and 2 or 3 cans of tuna, we eat once a day,” he describes devastatedly.
Humanitarian aid is taking a long time to come since Israel is blocking its access despite calls from the United Nations given the seriousness of the situation for civilians. “No type of humanitarian aid has entered the territory. Not a bottle of water has entered Gaza. It is a theater, it only serves to free the people with dual nationality who live in the strip. Israel’s intention is to remain well with the rest of the countries with which they share nationality and try to cover up the situation so that they do not witness what is really happening here,” he concluded forcefully.
