Only one way out

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One of the ponds along the ridge yesterday morning.

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I drawing the best robot EVEER 💖💖

me watching it all unfold, oil on canvas paper, 2024

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Waterfall

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I want to make sure everyone actually understands the severity of this.

When we say that 1.4 million people in Rafah have nowhere to go we are also talking about how Israel had taken over Rafah crossing, which is the sole access point for Gazans, preventing the movement of people and goods as a result.

For the past 7 months you've heard of famine and witnessed infants dying of severe dehydration. This is only going to exacerbate now that the only source of the already scarce resources of food and water is completely shut down.

For the past 7 months you have seen how many people Israel's weapons have severely injured and maimed and how the only remaining cancer hospital was also taken over by Israel. The situation of these people who are injured and sick is only going to get worse because despite them obtaining permits to leave Gaza for treatment, there is no way out anymore.

For the past 7 months you have seen countless people crowdfunding to evacuate their families and flee genocide. None of these efforts are going to go anywhere and no one would be allowed out of Gaza for the foreseeable future, while Israel goes on with its barbaric mission of attempting to annihilate the people of Gaza.

Absolutely no access. Everyone is trapped. Nowhere to go.

the figures we were getting for the first few months were from the gaza health ministry, and they were to a high standard i.e. they weren't just going and counting bodies but were identifying the dead. With the total devastation of Gaza it's impossible for this work to continue, or for the ministry to function when its workers need to concentrate on getting food each day. This is why the number has stood still at 34,000 for so long. This is all obvious stuff; the fact that news media keep using this figure, generally without any caveat, is journalistic malpractice and complicity in genocide.

The truth is that we don't know how many are dead, because the organisations which could provide a count are not present in Gaza. Hundreds of thousands seems likely, especially when we take into account food shortages.