"Displacement sites and tents have become part of our lives. We've had to find ways to adapt to this misery even though it's almost impossible, he said. Every chapter in Said's book is named after a person, a place, or a memory he refuses to let disappear. I don't need your sympathy, he said. I need a conscience that hasn't rotted a human that hasn't turned to stone, I need a reader who won't just close the book and sigh then go to sip their coffee."
"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 for the displaced population. Said said he did not write for recognition, but to express his emotions and bear witness to the atrocities. I was devastated. I couldn't contain my anger. Writing became the only way to let it out, he said."
A 24-year-old displaced Palestinian, Wasim Said, is writing Witness to the Hellfire of Genocide to chronicle two years of unrelenting war and repeated forced displacement caused by Israeli bombardment, ground invasion, destruction, and forced starvation. He writes mostly inside a bare tent without protection from summer heat, winter cold, or heavy rains, often by candlelight because electricity and internet infrastructure has been destroyed. Each chapter bears the name of a person, place, or memory he refuses to let disappear. He writes not for recognition but to express emotions, bear witness to atrocities, and preserve unseen human stories and final moments.
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