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📚 “When the World Looks Away: A Diary from the Rubble”

 



✍️ By Malik Mukhtar
📅 July 19, 2025
🌐 www.ainnbeen.blogspot.com


There are no playgrounds left. Only craters.
Where schools once stood, there is silence and ash.
Where families once sat around evening meals, there are bones buried under dust.
This isn’t just war.
This is the systematic disintegration of a peoplerecorded, reported, and ignored.

The UNRWA Situation Report #175 is not a bureaucratic update.
It’s a death certificate.
Stamped with the blood of children, signed by the indifference of nations.


📍 Gaza – The Endless Exodus



85% of Gaza’s population—1.9 million human souls—are displaced.
Imagine that.
A child goes to sleep in one shelter, only to be bombed awake and forced to flee to another.
From Rafah to Khan Younis to Deir al-Balah, the "safe zones" have become killing fields.

Some families have no choice left but to return to homes that no longer existroofless, burnt, unstable—because there is no space left in shelters, and the streets offer less danger than the so-called humanitarian zones.

UNRWA, wounded but not broken, still delivers food, clean water, and medical aid from its remaining facilities.
But its reach is shrinking.
Not due to lack of will, but because of walls of fireblocked access, bombed convoys, and sniper fire aimed at hope.


🔥 When Even the Blue Flag Cannot Protect

The United Nations flag no longer means safety in Gaza.
Since October 2023:

  • 193 UNRWA staff have been killed.
    These were teachers. Doctors. Engineers.
    Mothers and fathers.
    Humanitarians, not combatants.

  • 190 UNRWA buildings have been struck.

    • 64 targeted directly
    • 51 hit multiple times
      These buildings were schools, clinics, shelters.
      Over 500 civilians were killed inside these so-called “protected” spaces.
      Many were children seeking refuge.
      Many were blown apart with food still clutched in their hands.

In the north and central areas of Gaza, no aid can reach the starving.
Why?
Because Israel denies access, refuses safe passage, and sometimes bombs the aid that does arrive.

This is not logistical failure.
It is a siege wrapped in legalese, defended by diplomats, and executed with impunity.


💰 A River of Need, a Drip of Aid

The world pledged help.
Then walked away.

As of mid-July 2025:

  • Of the $4 billion required to keep Palestinians alive this year, only 19% has been funded.
  • That’s $782 million, barely enough to cover one month of Gaza’s needs, let alone rebuild a society from rubble.
  • 88% of that aid is needed in Gaza. But money doesn’t flow to where the bombs still fall.

In June alone:

  • Only 122 humanitarian projects were operational across the oPt.
    • 87% in Gaza, though access to many areas is impossible.
    • The majority were run by NGOs and local partners, risking everything to fill the void left by the international community.

Every dollar missing from this appeal is a child unfed, a wound untreated, a school unrepaired.
And yet, donors hesitateout of fear, out of complicity, out of allegiance to power over humanity.


FINAL THOUGHT: This Is Not a Crisis. This Is a Crime.

Let’s stop calling this a "conflict."
Let’s stop saying “both sides.”
Let’s call it what it is:
A genocide by starvation, bombardment, and bureaucratic strangulation.

This is not the story of a war between equals.
This is one of the most densely populated places on earth, turned into a testing lab for cruelty, while the world debates definitions.

As UNRWA fights to keep even a flicker of humanity alive, what will history say of us?

That we were neutral?
Or that we were silent?


🖋️ Sources: UNRWA Situation Report #175 (July 5–11, 2025) | oPt Humanitarian Flash Appeal
🔗 Full Data: OCHA FTS & oPt Humanitarian Fund

💥 Share. Speak. Act. Before another shelter becomes a grave.


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