On the first anniversary of the Gaza war, this is not a commemoration or a revisiting of a past memory, for the war continues, the genocide persists, and Israel is expanding its war on the region. The wound in Gaza is deep and bleeding, and the death toll continues to rise, from Gaza to the West Bank and even Lebanon.
A year has passed since the open genocide in Gaza, and Israel's war, in which its previous wars and policies towards Gaza and all of Palestine have intensified. This year is not merely an anniversary, but the beginning of a new year in which the genocide continues. The passage of a year since the war is a theoretical matter in terms of calculations, but in Israel's logic, it means more rubble and more corpses from Gaza to Lebanon.
In this special report, "Ultra Palestine" covers the anniversary of the Gaza war through a series of articles, featuring testimonies about Israeli massacres. Survivors recount the details of their experiences during the massacres, describing their encounters with death and their survival for hours.
In this report, we at "Ultra Palestine" sought to restore the voices of the people, the residents of the Gaza Strip, who have been displaced, wounded, and have lost their families, and who continue to live, or what can be called living, under a barrage of shells and bombs, on the eve of a new winter of war, without tents, with frail bodies, vulnerable to viruses and diseases, just as they are vulnerable to American bombs.
The report, in a series of articles, covers testimonies from Israeli massacres, in which survivors recount the details of their experiences during the massacres, and speak about their encounters with death and their survival for hours. This coverage also includes the experiences of Gazan detainees in the Sde Teiman detention camp, which has transformed from just another Israeli military outpost scattered across the country into one of the most prominent symbols of Israeli aggression. Through the voices of those who were released, we present a series of testimonies that reveal some of what happened and continues to happen to prisoners from Gaza.
The report also addresses one of Gaza's landmarks, Al-Shifa Hospital, which Israel transformed into a battlefield. We present the testimony of the hospital's director, Dr. Muhammad Abu Salmiya, a physician and former prisoner, who recounts the details of the first hours before the initial Israeli raid on the hospital.
From the lives of women under war, to Israel's open war on the public sector in Gaza, the high cost of living under the siege, the anticipation of winter in Gaza's dilapidated tents, the hopes of displaced families, memories of place, and resistance against the "ever-present specter of death," to the question of how to live "a year without electricity?" and the loss of libraries—we will publish a series of articles over the coming days, in the voices of the people, covering various aspects of the lives of the residents of the Gaza Strip under Israel's ongoing and relentless aggression.