The next stage of the Gaza genocide has begun

"Jamal's nine-year-old body is paralysed. He experiences constant, uncontrollable, violent spasms. He cannot sleep through them. Nor can his mother. To keep the spasms under control, a drug called baclofen is required. It relaxes the muscles and stops the shaking. Suddenly halting the use of baclofen can have serious health consequences. Jamal's mother, my cousin Shaima, wrote to me from the family's tent in al-Mawasi displacement camp in Gaza a week ago."

"It was her son's seventh day without the medicine. The violent, neurological spasms that seize Jamal's limbs leave him screaming out in pain. Baclofen is unavailable anywhere in Gaza: not in hospitals, not in clinics, not in Ministry of Health warehouses, and not even through the Red Cross. Shaima has searched all of them. It is one of the many medicines blocked by Israel, along with painkillers and antibiotics. Jamal now endures dozens of spasms each day. There is no alternative medication or substitute. There is no relief, only pain."

"Speaking at the United States-based, Israel-focused MirYam Institute last month, he said, We need to make sure that the story is told properly so that when the history books write this, they don't write about the victims of Gaza. At this line, the audience applauded. Pompeo went on to say that every war has civilian casualties, but the true victims in this case are the Israeli people. His concern is that October 7th and the war in Gaza would be remembered incorrectly. It seems Pompeo wants to argue that the people of Gaza are just collateral damage in Israel's war."

A nine-year-old boy in Gaza suffers debilitating, uncontrollable neurological spasms that require baclofen to relax his muscles and prevent dangerous withdrawal. Baclofen is unavailable across Gaza — in hospitals, clinics, Ministry of Health warehouses, and through humanitarian channels such as the Red Cross. Family searches have failed to find alternatives, and the boy now experiences dozens of painful seizures daily with no substitute medication. Multiple essential drugs, including painkillers and antibiotics, are reported blocked. A former US Secretary of State framed Gaza civilians as collateral damage and urged historical erasure of Gaza victims.

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