r/TheLevant

Imagine being a father, trying to get home with your son, when a group of settlers surrounds you, beats you, and takes your car.

Imagine being unable to protect your own child or even your own property because you are outnumbered by a group of people attacking you.

For Palestinians, fear is not just about losing their homes or being forced from their land. It is also about being attacked in broad daylight and wondering whether anyone will ever be held accountable.

How is this acceptable? And how long are Palestinians expected to live like this?

No one should be above the law. Every person deserves safety, dignity, and justice, regardless of who they are or where they come from.

Please don't look away. Share their story. The world needs to see this.

Imagine being from Gaza, living through war day after day, watching your home transformed, your dreams shattered, losing loved ones, and then looking around, feeling utterly alone in the face of all this pain.

The hardest part isn't just what happened to us, but the feeling that the world witnessed it all, yet little changed. Even some of our Arab neighbors, whom we hoped would stand with us, didn't offer the support we needed in this ordeal.

That's why, when someone from afar, like the Italian MP Riccardo, speaks about Gaza, about the injustice suffered by Palestinians, and about our feeling of being abandoned, his words resonate with us in a different way.

He may not know what the sound of shelling is like trying to sleep, or what it's like to leave your home not knowing if you'll ever return, but he chose to speak out when he could have remained silent.

From Gaza, thank you to everyone who chose to see humanity before politics, and to listen to the voices of those living in pain instead of ignoring them. We don't ask the world to live through what we lived through, only to remember that we are human beings, that we have dreams, homes, memories, and people we love, and that we deserve to live in peace like everyone else.