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‘Wen we die, nobody go know': Diaries from Gaza

Anonymous Fri 10 Nov 2023 00:07:18 No.1234421 View View Reply Original Report

https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/articles/c4n4z40eve2o

Four pipo for Gaza record life under bombardment for BBC World Service, dem describe long days of searching for food and water and longer nights dey hide from air strikes, praying to stay alive until morning.

Israeli forces don dey bomb Gaza Strip since 7 October, killing more dan 10,000 Palestinians, according to di health ministry wey Hamas dey run. Dem launch di strikes in response to Hamas attack on Israel, wey kill more dan 1,400 pipo and take at least 242 hostage.

Unstable phone networks and communications blackouts don make am difficult to stay in touch, but our contacts send messages and videos wen dem fit.

Warning: Dis article contain graphic descriptions

Friday 13 October
Israeli planes drop leaflets telling residents for northern Gaza to evacuate to di south before one ground invasion, for dia own "safety and security".

Farida: Farida na 26-year-old English teacher for Gaza City. "Three of my neighbours house don dey destroyed. We all get to evacuate but we no get anywhere to go," she tok for her first message. "We just dey wait. Several of my friends dey miss, dem fit don die. I no know about my parents."

She head go south, dey waka with her siblings and dia six young children. Dem waka for almost one week, dey sleep for streets. Dia aim na to pass Wadi Gaza, to di area Israel say go dey safe.

Adam: On di same day, for di southern city of Khan Younis, Adam, one youth worker dey prepare to evacuate for di fifth time in five days.

"Dem ask over one million pipo from north Gaza to head south, to Khan Younis specifically," e tok. "But Khan Younis dey record to air strikes. One happun very close to my home."

Food, medicines, and petrol stocks don reduce afta Israel impose a complete siege on di Gaza strip and Adam no fit get di care wey e need for im elderly father, wey get Parkinson's disease. Dem no fit find bed for am for hospital either. Di night before, dem sleep for ground for di hospital yard.

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Anonymous Fri 10 Nov 2023 00:07:41 No.1234422 Report

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Khalid: A supplier of medical equipment wey dey live for Jabalia for northern Gaza, Khalid refuse to evacuate with im family, despite di leaflets wey tell dem to do so.

"Wia we go go? Nowhere dey safe, no exceptions. We go dey dead in any case," e tok inside one video message, with di sound of bombs wey dey explode for di background. Khalid dey look afta im cousin two young children wey survive one attack for one market for im neighbourhood.

"Serious shortage of medical supplies due to a high number of injuries dey," e add. "Dem need to keep some medicines at low temperatures, but due to power outages dem done go off. Dis items dey urgently needed."

E say e never dey able to deliver medical supplies since di war start.

Monday 16 October
Convoy of vehicles wey dey carry civilians and dey head go south on Salah al-Din street, one of two evacuation routes as dem tok, dey hit. Seventy pipo, mostly women and children, die, according to di Palestinian health ministry. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) deny any involvement. To date, 2,785 Palestinians don die.

As strikes take place for di south, more Palestinians decide to stay for dia homes for di north. Odas wey dey seek shelter for di south decide to return.

Farida: Afta sleeping for streets for days, Farida dey devastated. "I dey out of words to describe how I dey feel or wetin dey happen," she tok. "A lot of bombing dey happun around us and all di children dey cry. We no know wia to go.

"Every night for Gaza you no know if you go wake up or not. I just dey siddon with my family, dey wear my hijab. I need to prepare myself for any airstrikes we fit face."

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Anonymous Fri 10 Nov 2023 00:08:42 No.1234424 Report

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Tuesday 17 October
One explosion for di Al-Ahli hospital for Gaza City kill 471 pipo. Women and children wey take shelter for di hospital yard dey among those wey die. Israel say e no get hand and say di explosion dey caused by one Palestinian Islamic Jihad rocket wey misfire.

Abdelhakim: Few months before DI war begIn, Abdelhakim graduate as a software engineer. E dey live for di Al Bureij refugee camp for central Gaza. E say several of im friends bin dey di scene of di hospital blast. One injure, while anoda lose im entire family.

"I be 23 years old and I dey alive for now," e tok inside one video wey dem use torchlight film. "I no know if dem go tell my story wen I dey alive. Di planes overhead fit kill me."

"We no get water, no medicine, no electricity, no necessities. I never eate in three days except for one small slice of bread wey me and my and my siblings share. Me and my family never sleep for more dan 10 hours in 12 days. We tire well-well. We no fit rest because we dey so worried."

Abdelhakim and oda volunteers dey distribute donations from im home. "We dey prepare aid packages and blankets. Even di children dey help. We decide to take di initiative instead of waiting for di aid trucks from Egypt," e explain.

Friday 20 October
Abdelhakim home dey destroyed inside one Israeli airstrike and e send di video of di collapsed building. Pipo dey scream for di background as di family dey run to evacuate.

Abdelhakim: "We bin siddon and suddenly rockets hit us. Na small tin remain we no for fit comot from di house. Our neighbours still dey under di remains," e tok. "We go finde dem but we no see anyone. We dey live every minute and every hour surrounded by death."

"My family and I dey alive by some miracle. We dey fix part of our home so we fit stay here and wait to die."

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Anonymous Fri 10 Nov 2023 00:09:44 No.1234425 Report

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Wednesday 25 October
Abdelhakim neighbourhood dey hit by anoda airstrike. To date, 6,972 Palestinians don dey killed.

Abdelhakim: Dis time, e only manage to send one voice note with tears wey full im voice and some text messages say: "I no fit do anytin to help, I dey paralysed by di sight of body parts everywhere. Nobody here dey safe, all of us be martyrs in di making."

Dem don allow aid trucks to enta Gaza through di Rafah crossing point with Egypt, but di supplies dem bring no dey anywhere near enough for Gaza displaced population - UN estimate say more dan 1.4 million pipo don get to leave dia homes.

Adam: Di struggle to find food for im family dey weigh constantly on im mind: "I get to wake up very early to get food without standing inside a long queue. Di situation dey get worse."

"Wen you sleep for inside school yard, sometin inside you go break. And wen you sleep inside hospital yard, sometin else inside you go break. Wen you stand for line for bread and beg for water, many tins inside you go break."

Khalid: "Dem continue to dey bom us and we no know how we fit go out to get bread. Fridge no dey to store food. We dey chop food wey don spoil, rotten tomatoes, insects dey comot from di cauliflower. We no get choice but to eat am because nothing else dey. We get to remove di mould and eat wetin we get."

Farida: Di family decide to return to dia home for di north. "We no get anywhere to stay for di south and we bin no get any basic necessities. Di bombs bin dey very heavy wai we dey. We decide to return home to at least keep our dignity," she tok.

"Belle sweet us well-well just to get place to sit down and to make contact with friends and family, even if na just for four or five minutes a day."

Shortly after dem return, dem bomb dia street, and part of her house dey damaged.

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Anonymous Fri 10 Nov 2023 00:10:45 No.1234426 Report

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Friday October 27
Internet and phone services dey completely cut off for Gaza, causing a full communications blackout for 48 hours, as Israel step up im ground operation. We dey unable to communicate with Adam, Abdelhakim, Farida and Khalid. Wen communication networks return, dem describe days of darkness.

Abdelhakim: "Serious bombing happen last night. E no get way of communicating and ambulances no fit come get pipo, so whoever dem bomb, dey die on di spot."

Adam: "I dey fine, thank God. But while communications dey down, my father die. May e rest in peace. I bin dey completely powerless at dat moment to call even those wey dey closest to me, so dem fit come dey by my side, or even tell dem wetin don happen."

Farida: "I lost my friend and my home dey destroyed," she tok, as she dey cry. "My brother injure. Di pain dey eat my heart. We no dey OK, we dey totally broken."

Khalid: "Di day felt normal, but wen internet come back on we start to hear news. Whole homes and blocks dey destroyed. Whole families don die. Di situation dey tragic. Dem cut us off from di world den di massacre begin."

Monday 30 October
Israeli tanks approach Gaza City, and dem see dem for Salah al-Din road, di main evacuation route from north to south Gaza.

Khalid: "I no dey go. Now we dey tink: 'Oh God, wen di next bomb go fall so we fit die and rest?'"

Dis na di last time we hear from Khalid. We lose contact afta one Israeli air strike on Jabalia, wia e dey live, on 31 October. At least 101 pipo die and 382 dey injured, according to one Palestinian health official. Israel say dem bin dey target one senior Hamas commander not civilians. E accuse di organisation, wey Israel, US, UK, EU and odas tag as terrorist group, of hiding im members for civilian areas.

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Anonymous Fri 10 Nov 2023 00:11:46 No.1234428 Report

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Farida: "I get dreams. I get great family and friends. I bin get ogbonge great life. I continue to dey tink: 'Wen we die, no-one go know about wetin dey happen.' Please write everytin I say. I wat deliver my story to di world because I no be number."

Adam: "I want you to tell di whole of dis story, so e dey documented, so di world feel shame forever for allowing am to happen to us."

UN experts don warn say time dey run out to prevent "genocide" for Gaza.

For di first four weeks of war, more dan 10,000 Palestinians, mostly civilians, don dey killed. More dan 4,000 of dem be children.

*We get di number of pipo killed in Gaza from di Hamas-run health ministry.

Additional reporting na by Haya Al Badarneh and Mary O'Reilly

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Anonymous Fri 10 Nov 2023 02:07:10 No.1234469 Report

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>>1234421
Thank you pidgin poster. You are a credit to the board.

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theonedarketernalswine wallowseternaly Fri 10 Nov 2023 12:20:10 No.1234596 Report

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>‘Wen we die, nobody go know'

No Virgins in the sky?
It's over
The west has won
The dark swine have inherited the earth
and shall wallow in the filth til the heat death of the universe

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Anonymous Fri 10 Nov 2023 19:05:43 No.1234696 Report

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I legit thought op was fucking around, until I searched up the pidgin British Broadcasting company.

Dey really talk like dis mon

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Anonymous Fri 10 Nov 2023 21:50:08 No.1234764 Report

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>>1234696
Yes. It's literally ebonics for blacks.

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