#suddenly remembered the legend of Madduma Bandara
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Baby lioness! 😭
#crying#the bravest baby in all the world#suddenly remembered the legend of Madduma Bandara#''do not fear brother! i will show you how to face death. executioner‚ cleave my head from my shoulders in one stroke!''#i always thought even if that story was true‚ it must have been because he was so young#a child of eight couldn't possibly understand death#but this little girl has seen death in every form since she was born#blown to pieces and crushed under rubble and burned alive and choked in smoke and phosporus and shot in the head#wasting away from starvation and infection and exhaustion and broken hearts#she's learned to sleep through bombs and gunfire#but in the midst of the second Great Catastrophe of her people she says no#i will never leave. i will never let them win.#the little david facing goliath#you will survive. and you will be immortal.#heroes of gaza#children of gaza#palestinian children#glory to the resistance#justice for palestine#ceasefire now!#from river to sea palestine will be free#free palestine#knee of huss
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