Palestinian writer: In Western and Arab media people like me are omitted either with bombs or with titles!

Palestinian writer: in western and arab media people like me are omitted either with bombs or with titles!

Pars Today- A Palestinian writer called Western and Arab media as partners-in-crime of the Zionist regime in genocide of the people of Gaza.
According to Pars Today, Alaa al-Ridwan, living in Cairo, in an opinion column for the British analytic site, Middle East Eye, wrote, “Israel killed my family and ruined my house while the world was just watching.” According to IRNA, this Palestinian writer left Gaza with her children to be immune against genocide, but is suffering the burden of homelessness every day.
Al-Ridwan wrote about the bitter memory of demolition of her house in Gaza, “Our house was in Nasera (Nazarite) neighborhood of Gaza. Every corner of the house remembered our laughter and every room witnessed our tears. Suppose what would be the feeling when you lose everything; the walls I had painted carefully, the curtains I had chosen with love, the kitchen where I used to make food for my dear ones, the corridor where my twin took their first steps and the bookshelf which was full of books.”
She added, “As if we were invisible humans. In the Western and even Arab media, people like me are omitted either with bombs or titles.”
This Palestinian novelist wrote, “The world is looking at us like statistics of the dead, wounded and refugees, and does not consider us as human beings.”
Alaa Al-Ridwan continued, “As for Israelis, psychological ills are given media coverage, but in Gaza, the psychological ill caused by the war is a privilege which is not given to us. Western media destroy the difference between the occupier and the occupied, [between] the aerial attack and homemade rocket, [between] systematic siege and resistance.”
This Palestinian translator continued, “The media play an important role in not showing the crimes against the people of Gaza through the words such as hitting the military or announcement of alleged carnages.”
She wrote, “As in the carnage of relief workers in Rafah, although the live pictures of this carnage were before the eyes of the world people, Western media continued using the language of doubt and ambiguous and equivocal words to narrate these crimes.”
This Palestinian writer said that silence towards the crimes of the Occupying regime or broadcasting news in favor of the occupiers is not merely moral. She added, “The issue is not just moral, but it is the recording of events in history; that whose pains are recorded and whose pains are erased. It matters whose voices shape the public opinion, international policy and history.”
This Cairo-based Palestinian writer concluded, “We are not mere numbers. We are not mere victims. We are human beings with names, memories and future which we were building. We deserve to be seen. I am not the first one to say these. Palestinians have been narrating their stories to the world people for decades. But, now, nearly 20 months after this genocide, we are not heard, yet. Silence is still louder than the sound of bombs and heavier than the ruins of houses.”
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