#its the ultimate cruelty i think that gaza is dying of famine when literally a few miles away there is so much food

[kartana]

I heard a story on npr today about how a city near Gaza in Isreal has had its population return up to 70% or so after many people fled after october. The show mentioned oct 6th a lot, describing students' reactions to the day and how one teacher consoled a child who was scared by saying that the spilders were scared too. They explained that many families chose to leave the city after threats of missles and that they have all started to return. Schools are running again there, and they also drove a lot of people to return. The story talked about how many schools erected walls towards Gaza to feel protected and that many schools now had armed guards stationed for security. They talk about the children dealing with trauma from having to evacuate last year along with hearing bombs in Gaza constantly. I hear children speak and then mothers talk about how they dont move away because all of isreal is dangerous, not just miles away from the border wall. I heard an Isreali man, I assume a teacher, talk about how he went and planted an isreali flag in the rubble. The npr host pivots now for a moment and describes a hill with a clear view of the now destroyed nearby neighborhood in Gaza. He speaks like he's describing nature, that all the rows of houses have been turned to rubble. That over 34,000 palestinians have been killed. NPR cuts back to the city in isreal. A woman speaks about how it's bad for both sides of course and laments halfheartly that she's glad that "we" were winning but doesn't like that the citizens of Gaza suffer. Npr moves back to the man who planted the isreali flag in the rubble. I listen as he says he thinks its better if things are rebuilt far away, that the people of Gaza do not come back. That the time to rebuild will come later. That his flag signifies the resilience of the isreali people and how they persist. This is where the show ends. I feel like im being fucking punked. I feel like im supposed to just listen to the tone and crescendo this story presents thoughtlessly and leave with a faint buzz of sentiment about how war is bad for everyone and people move on changed from it. To have this nothing sentiment and take no action due to it just being a story I hear on the radio. The children are scared of the bombs! We took one sentence to describe where the bombs dropped. It's just rubble now. they are no people there don't think about the people in those houses and the bodies under the rock. I don't have to think about that because npr said most people have fled the north of Gaza. It's fine don't think about it. Think about the isreali flag in the wind surrounded by a devastated landscape. This is a powerful statement we will end the show on. Jesus fucking christ. I think npr should do a story on manifest destiny next they could just do this story again and change some details.