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Uday, One Day<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n by Jim Aitken<\/em><\/p>\n In memory of Uday Abu Mohsen who lived only one day Uday was the baby boy\u2019s name. Uday, it was. He would have been welcomed with fear He leaves behind the insanity of surgical strikes, Uday\u2019s death certificate was bizarrely issued before The cry of Uday must be heard in Israel, in Syria, in Iraq, Turning louder all the time so that the whole world \u00a0See also these reports on media coverage of the Gaza genocide, at the BBC<\/a> and more generally.<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Uday, One Day by Jim Aitken In memory of Uday Abu Mohsen who lived only one dayafter being killed during the Siege of Gaza, 2023. Uday was…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":410,"featured_media":15740,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1660],"tags":[2845,2872,2879],"class_list":["post-15742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-2","tag-gaza","tag-israeli-bombing","tag-uday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/410"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
after being killed during the Siege of Gaza, 2023.<\/p>\n
He would have known so little but he would
have known he was someone with being.
He would have been welcomed and loved.<\/p>\n
and would have known little of the blast
that ended his one- day old life, mayfly Uday.
Yet he leaves behind much more than a name.<\/p>\n
the criminality of collateral damage, the nonsense
of precision bombing, the lunatic costs \u2013 and profits \u2013
of warfare set against the massacre of the innocents.<\/p>\n
any birth certificate arrived and the bombing continued
after his death. But mayfly Uday must be remembered
and not just in Gaza and in Palestine, not just there.<\/p>\n
in Russia and Ukraine, in Yemen, Tigray and Sudan.
Uday\u2019s little whimper should cross oceans, mountains
and plains, teeming cities and deserts, turning louder.<\/p>\n
begins to realise that without justice there is no peace;
that only justice can guarantee peace. Uday, one day
peace and justice will reign in your name. Uday, one day.<\/p>\n