The Final Straw Radio The Last Standing House In The Neighborhood (Hamza M. Salha in North Gaza)
We’re sharing audio from audio recorded by Franklin Lopez of Amplifier Films with Palestinian journalist Hamza M Salha who lives in North Gaza describing the conditions with the resumption of the escalated genocide being conducted by the Israeli settler-colonial military. Hamza speaks about the means that people are informed of incoming bombing raids, speaks of the sleepless night in the midst falling bombs in the rubble and tents, clearly exhausted himself. He speaks about the availability of food, his thoughts on the strangling and murderous siege of Israel, the failure of the world to stop the genocide and occupation.
You can find stories and photos from Hamza on his instagram account. If you want to support him and 40 members of his extended family and attempting to get out of Gaza to get medical attention, you can check out his Go Fund Me.
You can watch the video without any accounts, only a web browser and internet connection by visiting the Amplifier Films mastodon account. To echo Hamza, thanks to Franklin Lopez of Amplifier Films (Facebook, Instagram) for sharing this audio and creating videos to share Hamza’s world with us on the outside, and our deep gratitude to Adrienne for the support and Hamza for expressing his experience for the audience. We wish you solidarity and health.
You can read some of Hamza’s writings below (same as last episode):-
“I was buried alive beneath the rubble and awoke in a ‘graveyard'” (17 March 2024) https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/war-on-gaza-buried-alive-beneath-rubble-awoke-graveyard
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“Terrified, starving, crushed: The agonising death of my grandfather in Gaza” (2 Nov 2024) https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2024/11/2/terrified-starving-crushed-the-agonising-death-of-my-grandfather-in-gaza
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“Israel turned Jabalia into a barren desert and made our home a grave” (25 November 2024) https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/israel-turned-jabalia-desert-made-home-grave
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“Israel’s May 2023 military bombardments on the Gaza Strip killed 33 Palestinians in 5 days and disrupted countless lives.” (3 September 2023) https://wearenotnumbers.org/a-shadow-over-our-childhoods-the-peril-of-occupation/
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“Famine is already here” (8 March 2024) https://electronicintifada.net/content/famine-already-here/45026
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“Are we going to die this time?” (14 June 2023) co written with Khaled El Hissy https://electronicintifada.net/content/are-we-going-die-time/37966
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“The Jabaliya Massacre: Heaven Embraces Five Angels” (29 August 2022) https://www.palestinechronicle.com/the-jabaliya-massacre-heaven-embraces-five-angels/
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“Tensions, struggle and an unshakable will to stay” (5 March 2025) https://electronicintifada.net/content/tensions-struggle-and-unshakable-will-stay/50458
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“The night Israeli forces left families buried alive under rubble” (10 December, 2024) https://www.newarab.com/features/night-israeli-forces-left-families-buried-alive-under-rubble
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“Gaza’s open-air cinema offers temporary escape from blockade” (21 September, 2023) https://www.newarab.com/features/gazas-open-air-cinema-offers-temporary-escape-blockade
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