Keep Screaming....a poem and a review of this week's war crimes

Ferial Abu Haikal mourns her baby grandson Sam Fahd Abu Haikal, who was shot in the face by Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank on June 5, 2026 (Hazem Bader for AFP)

       

  

By Yussra

watching you
I feel like
I have never
known hardship

except my distress
at failing
to convey
your message

when we tell them
what they do
to your children

and they tell us
to go home

 but we won’t
because you can’t

their words break me
their drones kill you

watching you
I feel like
I have never
tasted injustice

the blood
on the onesie
is our fault

and the wedding suit
in the dust
that same weekend

a woman hated my sign
yelling: “I didn’t do shit”
and I thought: “exactly”

we are guilty
I accuse us all

when the sun sets
and your oppressor
is still standing

how dare we
fail you?

and what can we do
but keep screaming
at the silent?

the day will come
the day will come

an Israeli strike on Tyre in Lebanon on May 28, 2026 (Kawant Haju for AFP)

While you’re here, please allow me to share an incomplete collection of Israel’s recent war crimes, all just from the first week of June 2026. The dates bulleted below are all clickable links. Please note that this list doesn’t even include the many atrocities committed by Jewish supremacist settler terrorists in the West Bank this week, nor much of the corruption spread by the Zionist empire around the world every single day. It can be hard to keep up, but this short presents a great point: there are so many activists striving for liberation, and we don’t all have to cover everything, as long as each of us carries our corner.

• June 1: Israel bombs a hospital in Tyre, Lebanon, killing 4 people and injuring 127
• June 5: Israeli strikes kill 35 people in Lebanon and injure 120 in a single day
• June 5: Israel transfers Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya into solitary confinement (the Palestinian hospital director and pediatrician who Israeli forces kidnapped and have been torturing in their dungeons for a year and a half now)
• June 5: Israeli soldiers shoot a baby in the face in the West Bank, killing him and injuring his parents
• June 6: Israel kills a groom hours before his wedding in Khan Younis, Gaza
• June 6: Israel kills several people in a strike on a wedding in Gaza City (seemingly in a separate incident on the same day)
• June 6: Israel kills several people in a strike on a tent camp in Gaza City (again, from what I can tell, in a separate incident on the same day)

By the time you read these words, Israel is likely to have committed many more war crimes, but their day will come sooner if we keep screaming insha’Allah, refusing to get used to genocide.

THIS IS NOT NORMAL.

THIS IS NOT NORMAL.

THIS IS NOT NORMAL.