Photo courtesy https://www.rescue.org
By Hassen Lorgat
Dedication: More than 1,600 Palestinians have been killed in the Gaza Strip since the U.S.-brokered ceasefire went into effect on October 10, 2025, averaging approximately 4 people per day over the roughly 399-day period.
They just don’t want to cease fire
10 October 2025,
that’s when they signed their ceasefire.
The Palestinians knew from their experience,
but we hoped for truth to flow from their words in high office.
Some media flashed the breaking news,
and soon forgot about the people behind the ceasefire news.
…it never came.
But the autumn warned us of the winter of the Palestinians’ discontent
Now the storms are here,
the floods and the bombs too, keep raining
on the tents and the rubbled, make-shift homes.
Too much water but not the type you could drink…
and the food is still rationed.
…and they still look away.
At least four who were there in Gaza
are stripped daily from life.
Every day.
And it still continues.
…it will shift.
From the Strip to the Bank, or even to Beirut,
depending what the Führer demands.
And still they look away.
The olives bear witness but they are being mowed down too.
And they still look away.
And what about us?
We must keep holding hands and put roots deep into the soil.
We have to keep planting the seeds.
We must uproot those that despoil mother earth.
But hope on an emaciated body runs thin,
time is running out…
The olive trees, steady, are watching.
written 13.11.26 hassl