{"id":146848,"date":"2025-11-22T09:15:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T09:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/146848\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T09:15:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T09:15:08","slug":"young-man-documents-gazas-untold-stories-of-israels-genocide-in-book-israel-palestine-conflict-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/146848\/","title":{"rendered":"Young man documents Gaza\u2019s untold stories of Israel\u2019s genocide in book | Israel-Palestine conflict News"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 24-year-old says death and destruction makes him question the purpose of writing but he looks for a glimmer of hope.<\/p>\n

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Amid the ongoing and unfathomable agony caused by Israel\u2019s genocidal war in Gaza<\/a>, a young displaced man is writing a book to express acute Palestinian suffering and tell human stories that would otherwise go unnoticed.<\/p>\n

Wasim Said\u2019s book, called \u201cWitness to the Hellfire of Genocide\u201d, chronicles two years of unrelenting war, as well as repeated forced displacement<\/a> as a result of the relentless Israeli bombardment, ground invasion, destruction and forced starvation.<\/p>\n

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The 24-year-old shared his story with Al Jazeera\u2019s Hani Mahmoud, describing how he mostly writes inside a tent with nothing in it, including no real protection from the scorching heat in summer or the freezing winter cold and heavy rains<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cDisplacement sites and tents have become part of our lives. We\u2019ve had to find ways to adapt to this misery \u2013 even though it\u2019s almost impossible,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Every chapter in Said\u2019s book is named after a person, a place, or a memory he refuses to let disappear.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t need your sympathy,\u201d he said. \u201cI need a conscience that hasn\u2019t rotted\u2026 a human that hasn\u2019t turned to stone, I need a reader who won\u2019t just close the book and sigh \u2013 then go to sip their coffee.\u201d<\/p>\n

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He has spent many nights writing by candlelight, because the Israeli military has destroyed nearly all of the infrastructure in Gaza so there is no electricity or internet<\/a> for the displaced population.<\/p>\n

The young man said he did not write for recognition, but to express his emotions and also bear witness to the atrocities.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was devastated. I couldn\u2019t contain my anger. Writing became the only way to let it out,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He began by writing his own personal experiences, but soon realised that there were many who went through even more horrific tragedies that he said the human mind cannot imagine.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople who were killed and buried without anyone knowing. Their final moments. Their fear. I called this chapter The Untold Stories.\u201d<\/p>\n

For Said, every page is a form of quiet resistance against forgetting. He said death felt \u201cinevitable\u201d in many instances.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wrote because I wanted to leave something behind \u2013 to be a witness, not just another martyr. Stories disappear if they\u2019re not documented,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\"Gaza[Screen grab\/Al Jazeera]<\/p>\n

With nearly 70,000 Palestinians killed by Israeli since October 2023 and countless hospitals, schools and homes lying in ruins, the young man said he has questioned the point of writing, or indeed the point of being alive.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut human nature looks for a glimmer of hope. Even with the images of starvation and death, I still believe writing matters,\u201d he said\u201cThis is all I could write. The rest is being written now in blood. If I stay alive \u2013 I will finish the story.\u201d<\/p>\n

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