Almost five months since the blockade was complete
Millions have hardly had anything to eat
Most had now fled to the border with Sinai
The rest who, through the bombing, had managed not to die
Were living in the rubble with the other refugees
Hoping before they died of famine and disease
Trucks might come with deliveries of flour
As starving Palestinians were counting by the hour
The Army fired at every convoy that attempted
To make it to the north, but this one was exempted
It was contracted by the Army to come to this point on the map
So that they could set a trap
They waited for people to start unloading the aid
While they watched from above the pen that they’d made
Then they began to fire at those helpless below
To kill their unarmed and starving foe
Scores lay dead or dying all around
People fled the trucks amid the deafening sounds
Of gunshots and screams of those breathing their last breaths
Whose need to feed their families now resulted in their deaths
When people went back to the trucks to try again
It’s hard to find the words to even say what happened then
The troops began to fire more, round after round after round
Everywhere you looked a sea of blood was what you found
And then the soldiers drove their tanks over the dead
And then the western media just repeated what they said
“It was chaos on the Strip, we had to let the bullets rain
We can’t have starving people grabbing bags of grain”
So instead, another bloodbath, one of so many now so far
That makes Gaza Wadi smell like the ravine of Babi Yar
For a sack of flour, they'll shoot starving children dead
Though that's somehow not how the headlines read
Millions have hardly had anything to eat
Most had now fled to the border with Sinai
The rest who, through the bombing, had managed not to die
Were living in the rubble with the other refugees
Hoping before they died of famine and disease
Trucks might come with deliveries of flour
As starving Palestinians were counting by the hour
The Army fired at every convoy that attempted
To make it to the north, but this one was exempted
It was contracted by the Army to come to this point on the map
So that they could set a trap
They waited for people to start unloading the aid
While they watched from above the pen that they’d made
Then they began to fire at those helpless below
To kill their unarmed and starving foe
Scores lay dead or dying all around
People fled the trucks amid the deafening sounds
Of gunshots and screams of those breathing their last breaths
Whose need to feed their families now resulted in their deaths
When people went back to the trucks to try again
It’s hard to find the words to even say what happened then
The troops began to fire more, round after round after round
Everywhere you looked a sea of blood was what you found
And then the soldiers drove their tanks over the dead
And then the western media just repeated what they said
“It was chaos on the Strip, we had to let the bullets rain
We can’t have starving people grabbing bags of grain”
So instead, another bloodbath, one of so many now so far
That makes Gaza Wadi smell like the ravine of Babi Yar
For a sack of flour, they'll shoot starving children dead
Though that's somehow not how the headlines read
Contributed by Dq82 - 2024/5/4 - 08:52
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