Eradicate Injustice in Palestine. Editorial by Ibrahim Ebeid. August 7/2026
Editorial by Ibrahim Ebeid. August 7/2026
Eradicate Injustice in Palestine.
Editorial by Ibrahim Ebeid. August 7/2026
I am over ninety-one years old. I was born in Palestine when Palestine was under British occupation. To be exact, I came to a miserable life on June 1/1935. I, like others who were born at that time or before that time, have not seen happy days, like other children in the Western World; we have only witnessed wars, bombs, bullets, no Birthday celebrations, no stability. Then the British, the Western World, and the East, the Soviet Union, supported the Zionist entity to take over our land, commit genocide, ethnic cleansing, and now most of us are living in the diaspora, in exile. Those who are left have been suffering since then.
Since the Zionist usurpation of our Homeland in 1948, genocide and mass cleansing have continued in Gaza and on the West Bank.
Every spot in Palestine has seen death and destruction that anyone who travels there can see. Stones of buildings which were blown up, sometimes on top of the inhabitants, are a reminder that the Zionist occupiers, their crimes and brutality still exist, and the Palestinians are paying the heavy price. At the same time, the World is silent to the suffering of the Palestinians and supportive of the Zionist colonialist entity.
A few days ago, the news in Gaza carried to the World the funeral of a large funeral in Gaza of the remains of Palestinian victims from under the rubble. The scene was very sad and depressing, and as I watched it, I could not hold back my tears and rage.
The remains of 112 decomposing bodies rested on flag-draped beds in the scorching heat of the sun. This is all that remains of the Hasayneh and Abu Sharia clans, a Palestinian tribe with long-standing Bedouin origins that Israel nearly completely exterminated about three years ago.
The Palestinian authorities say that 308 members of the tribe were killed on November 22, 2023, when Israeli airstrikes demolished a group of buildings while its residents slept in the Sabra neighborhood, one of the old neighborhoods of Gaza City.
About half of the dead were recovered and buried earlier, but 153 bodies remain under the rubble so far.
Nearly three years later, a team of 40 workers spent 17 days searching through the rubble with meticulous care, exhuming the remains of 112 of those missing.
Several neighbors and survivors of the clan gathered on Tuesday, July 28, in a plot of land that was razed to rubble after it was destroyed, where the remains were displayed in preparation for what Palestinian authorities described as the largest mass funeral in the Gaza war.
