PALESTINE

“Sumoud is the Palestinian Signature”

Raw writings from the first week of genocide

Ramsey Hanhan 🇵🇸 🌍
4 min read3 days ago

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In Palestine on Oct. 7, I started posting two updates a day on LinkedIn. Acutely feeling the lives about to be lost, I wrote with a raw urgency, and from day one, did not hesitate to call it a ‘genocide’. The pieces attracted 105,000 views, which triggered the trolls, who ultimately got LinkedIn to restrict my account a week into it.

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Nature wears Palestine’s colors (Photo by the author, Ramallah, Palestine, Oct. 14, 2023).
Nature wears Palestine’s colors (Photo by the author, Ramallah, Palestine, Oct. 14, 2023).

Here is a list of these early pieces, which I reposted on Medium as soon as I came back to the USA.

https://ramsey-hanhan.medium.com/list/the-week-after-october-7-updates-from-palestine-5e39a9c3574d

The Week After October 7 - Updates from Palestine

11 stories
Statue of Mahatma Gandhi at the Garden of Nations playground, Ramallah, Palestine
Painting, Maher Naji, Palestinian Girl in Jerusalem Dress
Caravaggio’s “Christ driving the money-changers from the Temple.”

Just think that all those 40,000+ people killed were alive back then. The millions of Palestinians whose lives were overturned, were still in their homes. I leave you with a few excerpts from these prescient stories.

“The only civilians that matter are the Israelis. Israel’s attacks on Palestinian…

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Ramsey Hanhan 🇵🇸 🌍

Author. Tree spirit trapped in human form, I speak for the voiceless: children and the Earth, nature, justice, truth, freedom, love and Palestine. 🇵🇸 🌍