It was the most beautiful of all cities.
A city that felt like joy when it passed through the heart, and like safety when we needed it most.
But today, I don’t want to show you Gaza as it once was…
I want to show you the beauty of its nights as it bleeds.
Look at it closely…
Even amid all this destruction, it is still trying to look beautiful.
The sky is still above it, and the night still falls gently, as if nothing had ever happened.
But beneath this night are homes that are no longer homes,
doors that will never open again,
and places once filled with the voices of their people, now filled only with memories.
I am Gaza…
I am not asking you to look only at the rubble.
Look at what once stood beneath it.
Look at the life that was here, the laughter, the little dreams, the people who wanted nothing more than to live.
I want you to see that despite all this devastation,
I still hold on to a little of my beauty…
But I no longer know how much longer I can smile at the sky
while everything beneath me is crying.
This is not merely a picture of a Gaza night…
It is a message from a city trying to tell the world:
I was beautiful… and I still am, despite the fact that you left me to suffer alone.
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