Two Year’s of Gaza’s Agony: A world’s conscience on trial, by Professor Abdullahi Danladi
Two years have passed since the fateful events of October 7, 2023. This date that has been weaponized by global propaganda to conceal the truth and silence the oppressed. The Western narrative begins its timeline there, but history did not begin that day. The story of Palestine is not two years old; it is seventy-five years of unrelenting injustice, occupation, and humiliation. What followed October 7 was not a war, it was an extermination, a merciless campaign against a besieged people whose only crime is refusing to die quietly.
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Since that day, the Gaza Strip: that narrow ribbon of land by the Mediterranean, has been turned into a graveyard. Cities have been flattened, entire families erased from civil registries, hospitals bombed, and schools reduced to ashes. Over sixty two thousand souls, most of them women and children, have been slaughtered before the unblinking eyes of the world. The survivors are left to starve under siege, to drink polluted water, to bury their loved ones with bare hands, and to ask the heavens: What is our sin?
Israel, wrapped in the language of “self-defense,” has committed crimes that defy the imagination and desecrate every principle of humanity. It has used hunger as a weapon, hospitals as targets, and propaganda as a shield. The occupier still pretends to be the victim, but who can still believe such cruelty to be self-defense? A nation that blockades food and medicine, that bombs refugee camps, that buries children under rubble it is indeed questionable what moral ground does it stands on?
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And yet, the silence of the so-called civilized world is the greater crime. The powerful states, those self-appointed guardians of “human rights” have armed the oppressor and muzzled the truth. Their vetoes at the United Nations are bullets in Gaza’s children. Their double standards have unmasked their hypocrisy. The same voices that cry for Ukraine’s freedom are deaf to Palestine’s agony. The same nations that speak of democracy support apartheid in the Holy Land. Humanity has become selective, and justice has been bought and sold.
But Palestine has not died. It has endured and remained unbroken. From the ruins of Khan Younis to the ashes of Rafah, the spirit of resistance glows like an ember that no bomb can extinguish. Every mother who wipes the dust from her child’s face, every medic who tends the wounded with trembling hands, every youth who raises the flag of Palestine amid ruins are the living proof that oppression, no matter how armed or blessed by superpowers, cannot kill a people’s will to live in freedom.
As we mark the second year of this genocide, the world must confront its own reflection. The question is no longer about politics, it is about morality. How long shall the world stand idle while an entire nation is strangled before its eyes? How long will international law be a tool for the strong and a trap for the weak? When will the conscience of humanity rise from its slumber?
The way forward is as clear as it is urgent. The siege on Gaza must end. The occupation must end. The apartheid system must be dismantled. The architects and accomplices of these crimes must face justice before the world can claim any shred of moral credibility. Real peace will not come from temporary ceasefires that allow Israel to reload; it will come only when Palestine is free, free from the walls, free from the drones, free from the daily indignities of life under siege.
Let this second anniversary not be another occasion for hollow speeches and crocodile tears. Let it be a turning point for a call to conscience, a cry for courage. Let every person of faith, every lover of justice, every soul that still feels, rise and say: Enough. Enough of the lies, enough of the silence, enough of the blood.
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For Palestine is not just a land under occupation, it is the heartbeat of the human struggle for dignity. And until Palestine is free, humanity itself remains in chains.
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Professor Abdullahi Danladi, wrote from Ahmadu Bello University Zaria, Kaduna State.
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