The Day The Lights Went Out In Gaza

Rosalyn Morris
2 min readOct 30, 2023
Photo by Amir Hanna on Unsplash

Remember the day — October 27, 2023.

It’s a day that will be remembered henceforth.

Like the bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima, the beginning of the Rwandan Genocide, or the start of the Transatlantic Slave Trade, it’s the start of a horrific and dark point in history.

It’s the day Gaza went dark, a complete blackout, and Israeli troops invaded by foot to ramp up the ethnic cleaning of Palestinians.

When the world looks back on this day with horror and condemnation, there will be questions.

The most important — how did the world allow this to happen?

How did the world allow the genocide of Palestinians in total darkness — with no way for the world to see what was happening?

Could you imagine being in Gaza right now?

Surrounded by darkness, bombs dropping overhead, fires blazing, death and destruction all around you, and the smell of gas and rubble all around you while you wait for the world to step in and help you.

As of now, the death toll in Palestine is over 8,300 souls, mostly women and minors.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has made it abundantly clear that he has no plans to stop his siege on Gaza as “payback” for the October 7 attack by…

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