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For Gaza<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n by Mike Jenkins<\/em><\/p>\n They dried up the terrain They bombed the shops and warehouses – They cut off the electricity They stopped the journalists from entering; They blew up the roads , those ‘potholes’ They ordered a million to move on , They blockaded air , sea and land, While the people ran out of bodybags – Image above:<\/strong> by Alisdare Hickson. A Black man carrying a placard “Gaza – Stop the Massacre” at a protest near Downing Street in London. In the background, a placard “#Endthesiege”. This was the day after the U.S. moved its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, and 61 unarmed Palestinians, including several children, a baby, and journalist\u00a0Yasser Murtada<\/a>, were killed by the Israeli army during a demonstration near Gaza’s border fence.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For Gaza by Mike Jenkins They dried up the terrainLike parched riverbeds with only names left They bombed the shops and warehouses –Every child’s stomach a crater…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":486,"featured_media":15770,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1660],"tags":[2884],"class_list":["post-15773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-2","tag-genocide-in-gaza"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15773","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\/486"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Like parched riverbeds with only names left<\/p>\n
Every child’s stomach a crater<\/p>\n
So darkness was a way of life<\/p>\n
Who queued before danger like relief trucks<\/p>\n
The pocks of many missiles<\/p>\n
Who were followed by spying drones<\/p>\n
Huge noose of every element<\/p>\n
Soldiers on the border, inhuman predators.<\/p>\n