Support thread for those in Gaza 1 year on

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It's been one year since this all began, well we all know it started before. But I'm sure we've all been on such a painful rollercoaster this year and have felt the sufferings of our ummah deeply.

Sometimes when the kids are not around there'll be one image or video or testimony that will hit me hard (they all do tbh) that will make me cry.

There'll be times when in all the chaos that a house full of arguing kids bring, I sit back and say Alhamdulillah for these times and be grateful and appreciate what I have, what these kids have.

Please feel free to share your feelings x

The night my son was born, Westminster bridge had been closed because of the Gaza demonstration. Traffic was gridlocked and the effort required to arrive at hospital was epic but knowing we’d get help…

My baby was in nicu for 8 long weeks. We live in London and our local hospital is St Thomas’ across from Big Ben (he eventually went to GOSH for specialist care). My son nearly always had his cot by a window and we’d watch what was going on, on the bridge. We’d watch the Gaza demonstrations from the window.

Nothing prepares you for the noise in nicu. There are so many machines monitoring everything. The premature babies obviously have incubators but then there were babies like mine who were hooked to machines but didn’t need an incubator.
In that haze, both my husband and I would be sat there wondering how you could expect people to get up and leave their new born babies with war around them? It was bad enough having to get up and shuffle off home (after a c sec) but I knew the hospital had electricity, a good power supply. If there was no power my son would not have survived. I had, Al hamdulilah, certainty that my son would be there and the hospital would be there. We were in a place of trauma but knowing that new mothers were having to leave their babies not knowing if the building would have power, or that it would be there etc it totally made sense why everyone was camped out in the hospitals in Gaza.

I guess in the normal process of becoming a mother we remember Hajar running looking for water for her baby but for me I had such an extreme situation and I was so conscious of what I had v any mother sat in a hospital in Gaza.

I think it fits in perfectly here 🤗

That must have made so many emotional feelings about it all. If anything this has taught us is to be more appreciative of what we have and not look at what others who have more and want more, just be grateful for the little things. Alhamdulillah I’m glad all was ok in the end.

Why do some people have such disdain and contempt for the Palestinians who are undergoing this horrible genocide? I think one of the most hurtful things to read and honestly I only see this sort of rubbish on CITME is the claims they don't love their children as much or they don't care about them as much. That board is so depressing I can barely even read it. I doubt some of them have ever even met a Palestinian. They don't know how much Palestinian culture, values children and the tenderness and love shown to them.

I saw this video of these poor displaced children and this little boy who didnt even have shoes and dressed in torn clothes, was so overjoyed as his older brother had found him a kite. He was probably only five and the way he was so eloquently expressing his love for his brother and giving him so many duas was so touching. All because his brother had found him something to play with. That boy could be my son and his mother could be me. I see myself in every Palestinian mother, I see my children in every Palestinian child and it hurts. It hurts so much.

@Parkingt111 I agree. CITME is awful and the things that are said on there is so hurtful to read. Arguing semantics really doesn't change what's being inflicted on Palestine.

I agree @Parkingt111 . I think so many have links with Israel they cannot see anything.

Dehumanisation and saying certain groups don't love their children is one of the steps of genocide

The most ridiculous thing I’ve seen recently online is an attempt by them to claim back the watermelon! They can’t even let the Palestinians have their resistance symbol!

It's just madness @TakeMe2Insanity

Today is hard. I'm ok when I'm at work, but when I stop working it just hits me all over again. How the f*ck do I keep my child safe in a world where people want to do these things to them?

Very un mumsnet @Scirocco hugs xxx we have to find strength in our imaan and know that this dunya is temporary.

JazakAllah khair. ♥️

I agree with @TakeMe2Insanity, @Scirocco. Sending you virtual hugs too

JazakAllah khair. ♥️

Agree with everyone else too, although it's hard. I'm just so angry with everything. All I know is the dua of the mazlum does not go unheard.

I feel like I can't f*cking do this anymore. How many more times are people over there going to stick the knife in and mods ignore it. I've literally told them people I love are dying and got 'Islamic extremism', 'colonial guilt' and 'saving my compassion for people who deserve it'.

I hear you @Scirocco and I'm so sorry.

People over there are just, actually there's just no words for them but they absolutely disgust me the way they all defend what's going on.

They hide behind the anonymity of MN and feel emboldened to say whatever they want.

Hugs Scirocco

It makes me so sad and angry that people think and spout hate about Palestinians.

It’s good to know what some people truly feel and the hypocrisy.

I am not going to change myself and my humanity for them. I feel pity for the people who spread hate and are unable to show any compassion or regard for all human lives.

At times like this the verses from the Quran truly resonate.

I will keep praying and advocating for the people of Palestine. My resolve won’t be broken, the more they hate the stronger my resolve becomes.

We will rebuild Gaza, and we will not forget.

Well said @LaLaflower No one can change our humanity and our belief no matter how much they try.

JazakAllah khair, I'm so grateful to have you here.

This morning, my DC borrowed a hijab and used it as a superhero cape and it was so hard not to cry. How many of our Ummah's children will never play those games, or never be able to consider whether or not they want to wear hijab, or will realise that there are no superheroes in this world? DC thinks I'm a superhero, that I can fix anything... How disappointed they'll be when they realise the truth...

That is super cute of your DC!

To them you are their superhero. You're everything to them.

With all the duahs, dawah, donations, protests, being supportive of friends who are suffering you will have no doubt made a huge impact on someone's life and to them you are also a superhero. We can't change everyone's life the way we would like to but by Allahs will the impact you make on one person can change their entire world.

I'm rambling but I hope that makes sense somehow.