22.02.2026

'Epstein' | by Yılmaz Özdil

 



- Epstein -



by Yılmaz Özdil

Autotranslation:

"The connections of the global perversion organization Epstein continue to cause turmoil in many countries, including Türkiye, with one of the most serious repercussions occurring in England.


It has emerged that Prince Andrew, King Charles's brother, was one of Epstein's closest friends, officially caught red-handed with leaked photographs. Young girls who were victims of Epstein recounted being sent to Prince Andrew as "sex slaves," describing their encounters in the 30-room Royal Lodge within Windsor Castle, his residence, as well as in New York and on Epstein's island.


When these scandals came to light, Prince Andrew's titles of nobility and military honors were revoked by his brother, King Charles himself; he was expelled from the royal family and royal estates, his medals were taken away, and he went from being the Prince of England to becoming the most hated man in England.





Everything I've described so far seems to be related to England." However... what I'm about to tell you actually concerns the Republic of Türkiye and the Turkish people very closely.





How?





May 15, 1919.


It was 7 o'clock in the morning.


It was a pivotal moment for the Turkish nation.


Three thousand years after the Trojan War, Greece landed troops on Anatolian soil; Izmir was occupied.





They had carried out the first move of the Megali Idea.


The Megali Idea... It was the "great idea" they had dreamed of since the day Sultan Mehmed the Conqueror conquered Istanbul and ended the Byzantine Empire.


According to the legend, the Byzantine Emperor Constantine had not died, but had turned to marble, taken by an angel to a cave where the Turks could not set foot, where he had fallen asleep. One day, another angel would come, bring the emperor his sword, awaken him, and Emperor Constantine would reclaim Constantinople from the Turks.


By the Greek church, "Megali Idea" This was the "great idea," passed down from generation to generation, hammered into the minds of the Greek people by fanatical priests.


According to the Megali Idea, all the lands mentioned in Byzantine culture were the legacy of Hellenic civilization, rightfully belonging to Greece; the occupation of Izmir was only the beginning, Istanbul wasn't enough, the Aegean, Thrace, and the Black Sea weren't enough; according to the "great idea," more than half of Anatolia would belong to Greece.





It was with these feelings that the Greek king Constantine came to Izmir, disembarked at Kordon, feeling like Richard the Lionheart.


Because... the legendary King Richard the Lionheart of England, in 1190, had joined the Third Crusade to fight Saladin and capture Jerusalem. He had set sail from Marseille with an army of 650 knights, arrived in Izmir, set foot on Anatolian soil at what is now Kordon, and established his army headquarters there. He founded it in Karşıyaka.


The old name of Karşıyaka was Cordelio, derived from Richard the Lionheart, Coeur de Lion, meaning lionheart... The Greek king Constantine admired Richard, who was nicknamed "the lionheart" for his courage and leadership abilities.





He brought 53,000 more soldiers to reinforce the occupying forces.

He was also accompanied by his brother, Prince Andrea.





Prince Andrea wasn't one of those pampered princes raised in the palace; he was an elite officer fluent in six languages, had fought in the Balkan Wars, had combat experience, and hadn't come for leisure. He held the rank of Major General and had arrived as a corps commander.





What followed is well known: they displayed savagery... They raped our 10-year-old girls. They impaled our one-year-old babies on bayonets and paraded them through the streets. They prevented our newborn babies from breastfeeding... They were cutting off the nipples of our mothers. We had women who lost their minds because of what they experienced, and girls who took their own lives because of it. They filled mosques with children and set them on fire, burning them alive; children's hands were stuck to the iron bars of the windows. The Turkish Historical Society has photographs of this in its records. They filled huge pits with our people and mowed them down with machine guns, gouged out their eyes with bayonets, threw them into wells one on top of the other, suffocating them to death, and poured gasoline on their corpses and set them on fire. They tied gasoline-soaked rags to the heads of children, set them on fire, and watched their deaths, screaming and struggling. They tore up copies of the Quran, throwing them page by page into latrine pits, and defecated on our martyrs' cemeteries.





The reason for such horror was certainly not hatred of Turks; it was a strategic decision. They were forcing the people to flee, to migrate, depopulating the region, and filling the places vacated by Turks with people brought in from the islands or from Greece. They were settling Greeks, changing the demographics, cleansing Western Anatolia of its Turkish identity.





They inflicted bloodshed for three years, three months, and 22 days.


But ultimately, starting on August 26th, we pursued them like death itself, sweeping them away from where they started, from Izmir, towards the Aegean Sea.


As they fled, they became even more barbaric.


They took revenge on the civilian population, burning everything in their path. They had special demolition battalions, whose job wasn't to fight, but to destroy. They proudly gave themselves a nickname, calling themselves the "devil's battalion." They were a force of three thousand men, cavalry. They had trucks carrying kerosene and dynamite. They used hand pumps, pouring the kerosene through them to make the fires spread faster and more widely.





As we approached Izmir, we interrogated the Greek soldiers we had captured, and they all gave the same answer: Prince Andrea commanded the "devil's battalion." He had given the order to "burn everything." In fact, to set an example for his soldiers, he had personally set some of our villages on fire.





Prince Andrea was very cruel, even merciless towards his own soldiers. And... he was among those thrown into the sea from Izmir on September 9th. He returned to Greece with great shame. Because of the defeat they suffered, he was declared a "traitor" in his country. He was arrested. He was sentenced to death. Just as he was about to be executed by firing squad, England intervened, and through British diplomatic efforts, he was pardoned. He was exiled to France. He went to France humiliated, in the hold of a cargo ship, among crates of oranges.





Prince Andrea was the brother of the Greek king Constantine. Both his older brother and his father were Greek kings, and he himself was a Greek prince. But, they were all Danish! Yes, their father, who was placed on the Greek throne, was actually the son of the Danish king, made a puppet king of Greece by England. Prince Andrea's mother, Queen Olga, for example, was actually Russian, a Russian duchess, a member of the Romanov dynasty, and became the Greek queen when she married the Greek king.


So, in fact, there were no Greeks in the Greek royal family that ruled Greece and attacked Anatolia.





Anyway... This Prince Andrea narrowly escaped execution by firing squad, was pardoned thanks to England, and was exiled to France.





He was married to Princess Alice of the House of Windsor, a member of the British royal family. Princess Alice suffered from schizophrenia, and as her illness worsened during their exile, she was hospitalized in Switzerland. They didn't divorce, but they began living separately. Years later, after leaving the hospital, Princess Alice returned to Greece and became a nun! She wasn't even aware of her princess status anymore; she confined herself to the church and became a nun. Seeing that things weren't going well, she was brought to England by the British Royal Family, began living in Buckingham Palace, died there two years later, was initially buried in the gardens of Windsor Castle, her birthplace, but later her remains were exhumed and taken to Jerusalem, where she was buried in the gardens of the Russian Orthodox Monastery.


Yes... Prince Andrea, the commander of the "devil's battalion" that set Anatolia ablaze during the occupation, experienced such a tragedy in his family; his wife's life, which began as a princess, ended in madness.





Prince Andrea had five children, four daughters and one son. All four of his daughters married German aristocrats; all of their German husbands were Nazis, admirers of Hitler, members of the Nazi Party, and served in the Nazi army during World War II.





His wife was insane. Their daughters were Nazis. And what about his son?





Prince Andrew had only one son, Philip... He was born in Greece, and while they were living in exile in France, at the age of seven he was sent to England to live with his uncle for his education. When he was only nine, his mother was diagnosed with schizophrenia and confined to a clinic; he experienced this terrible trauma at such a young age. He was an intelligent child, graduated from the British Royal Naval College, became an officer, and participated in the Second World War as a battleship commander.





In 1944, his father, Prince Andrea, died penniless in Monte Carlo. The commander of the "devil's battalion" that set Anatolia ablaze, in a cautionary tale, died miserably, having lost everything. The curse of the Anatolian people he had burned alive had come true. Not only did he leave his son nothing, but he also left him with debts of 20,000 pounds sterling.





Immediately after the war, Philip met Princess Elizabeth, heir to the English throne. It was a turning point in his life. He was poor, but he was a nobleman, a military officer with a solid record, not raised as a Greek, but a true English gentleman. He was 25 years old when he proposed to the 20-year-old Princess. The Princess's father, the King of England, accepted, and they married in 1947.


Philip's sisters were alive, but they were not invited to the wedding because they were all married to Nazis, and all the German aristocratic grooms served in the Nazi army under Hitler.


Philip erased from his records his great-grandfather, who was King of Denmark, his grandfather and uncle, who were King of Greece, and his father, who was Prince of Greece, thus renouncing his Danish and Greek principalities and becoming an ordinary English citizen. He was born Orthodox, but he also renounced that and converted to Anglicanism, the official church of England. In return, the King of England made a gesture to his son-in-law, making Philip the Duke of Edinburgh.


Just one year later, their first child, the current King Charles, was born.


In 1950, their daughter Anne was born.


In 1952, the king died, and Princess Elizabeth ascended the throne, becoming Queen Elizabeth.


When Philip assumed the title of the Queen's husband, Andrea, who had perpetrated massacres of Turks in Anatolia, also became the father-in-law of the Queen of England.


Their third child, Andrew, was born in 1960.


The third child was named after Prince Andrea, the commander of the devil's battalion who set Anatolia ablaze and burned our people alive—that is, his grandfather.


Instead of saying "Andrea," they said "Andrew," which is the English spelling.





(Of course we will forgive, of course we will always look forward, we will never hold grudges about what happened in the past, every bad event happens and ends within its own context, we will never hold grudges, we will cleanse our diplomatic relations and our country's interests from the pains of the past. But... we will never forget. That's how it is, we will remember, we will do our duty as journalists and remind society, especially our young people, we will tell them, we will remind them.)





From Andrea to Andrew...


This is a cautionary cycle.





During the 1919 invasion, Prince Andrea, the commander of the "devil's battalion," who, with the backing of Britain, invaded Anatolia, wreaked havoc throughout Western Anatolia, from Izmir almost to Ankara, set our Aegean region ablaze, took pleasure in burning our cities and villages, and burned our people alive, had a grandson, Andrew, who shares his name... Just like his grandfather, he became a figurehead of grave crimes against humanity.





Like his grandfather, he was the king's grandson, like his grandfather, the king's brother, like his grandfather, he was a prince; his life, which began like a fairy tale, ends with a shameful end, just like his grandfather.





The grandson of the commander of the "devil's battalion" who poisoned the blood of the Anatolian people turned out to be one of the closest friends of the global psychopath Epstein.





His grandfather was a mass murderer, expelled from his country on charges of treason, and died in misery; his grandmother was insane; his aunts were Nazis; and he himself turned out to be a pedophile.


Like his grandfather, he was stripped of his titles of nobility, his military ranks, his medals, and his royal estates; he became the most hated man in England.





I think this is what they mean by "God's punishment is inescapable."


Those who tainted the blood of the Anatolian people, from grandfather to grandson, got what they deserved.





The curse of the Anatolian people, the curse of our blessed lands, the pure spirit of the National Forces, as pure as the heart of the Anatolian people, follows the commander of the devilish battalion like a curse.





From my point of view, the Epstein news, that's it." - Yılmaz Özdil https://sozcu.com.tr/epstein-p291509

19.02.2026

SERSERi

 

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#SâdeceHalk

 

#NurDasVolk

 



Un4tunately, I haven't created a video 4 the German version of #OnlyThePeople; instead, I've uploaded three German versionz here | Für die deutsche Version von #OnlyThePeople habe ich jetzt leider zwar kein Video erstellt; stattdessen habe ich hier drei deutsche Versionen hochgeladen | Maalesef #OnlyThePeople'ın Almanca versiyonu için bir video hazırlamadım; bunun yerine, buraya üç Almanca versiyonunu yükledim:

14.02.2026

CHARLIE CHAPLIN & PRINCE BAĞLANTISI - 2

A KING IN NEW YORK (1957) filmi de kezâ yine meğerse – ki hiç hatırlayamıyorum, ama sanırım çocukken Alman TV'sinde izlemiştim – Prince’in UNDER THE CHERRY MOON mâcerasına azıcık ilham olmuş olsa gerek:

A King in New York


UNDER THE CHERRY MOON (1986)

Under the Cherry Moon

Aşk hayatlarını Butler’larının nazik desteğiyle ele alıyor olmaları açısından yâni, en azından...

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IRMAK

 

8.02.2026

Gündem Döngüsü ve Asıl Mesele | The Agenda Cycle and the Real Issue

 

TR (EN below)

Aaron’un, Chomsky’nin eşinin Epstein meselesine verdiği yanıtı paylaştığı Substack yazısını gördüğümde, tepkim anlık ve duygusaldı.

O anda şöyle yazdım:

“I don't know whether 2 laugh or cry... After hearing what he said about us who haven't had mRNA injectionz, this stroke he suffered iz also quite significant, 2 be honest...” - ("Gülsem mi ağlasam mı bilemiyorum... mRNA enjeksiyonu yaptırmamış bizler hakkında söylediklerini duyduktan sonra, geçirdiği bu felç de dürüst olmak gerekirse oldukça mânidar...")

Bu tepki aslında Epstein konusuna yönelik değildi.

Daha önce Chomsky’nin mRNA enjeksiyonu yaptırmayan insanlar hakkında söyledikleri — bize yönelik son derece insanlık dışı ve dışlayıcı gelen ifâdeler — bende zaten güçlü bir etki bırakmıştı. Bu da o etkinin duygusal ve refleksif bir dışavurumu oldu.

Ancak yanlış anlaşılmamak için, Epstein konusundaki genel yaklaşımımı da açıklamam gerekir.

Bu konuda en son Instagram’daki bir gönderinin altına şöyle bir yorum yazmıştım:

“Hayır, Epstein ve onunla takılanları neden konuşayım? Buna zihinsel ya da fiziksel olarak neden zaman ve enerji harcayayım? Ortada dünya çapında uygulanan, çok uzun yıllar önce planlanmış bir karanlık ajanda var. Hitler’i de, Bolşevikleri de finanse eden kaynağı yöneten; Fransız Devrimi’ni bile öz amacından saptırıp manipüle eden; istisnâsız tüm politikacıların ve siyâsi partilerin, bâzen farkında bile olmadan hizmet ettikleri bir sistem var.

Buna karşı artık araya hiçbir ‘politikacı’ denen kukla girmeden doğrudan #SâdeceHalk olarak birleşmemiz gerekiyor. Uluslararası çapta, eş zamanlı bir #TopyekûnTamBoykot duruşunda, toplu bir reddedişte buluşmamız gerekiyor. Bu bile gerçek bir çözüm yolunda ancak ilk adım olabilir.

İşte buna odaklanmalıyız. Bunu konuşmalıyız. Gerisi oyalayıcı bir gündemdir. Konunun içeriği ne kadar kanlı ve korkunç olursa olsun, Epstein gibi vakaları sürekli konuşmak bizi çözüme ulaştırmaz. Eğer gerçekten çözüme ulaştıracak olsaydı, zaten o konunun gündem olmasına izin verilmezdi. Ne demek istediğimi anlatabiliyorum, değil mi?”

Yâni evet — normalde Epstein tartışmalarına özellikle girmememin sebebi bu.

Ana düşüncem değişmiş değil:

Sürekli skandallara, kişilere ve medya gündemlerine odaklanmak insanları tepki döngüsünün içinde tutar.

Gerçek değişim, politik figürlerin ve gündemlerin ötesinde, doğrudan bilinçli ve kolektif hareketle mümkün olabilir — #SâdeceHalk olarak.




EN

When I came across Aaron’z Substack post about Chomsky’z wife responding 2 the Epstein issue, my reaction waz immediate and emotional.

This iz what I wrote at that moment:

“I don't know whether 2 laugh or cry... After hearing what he said about us who haven't had mRNA injectionz, this stroke he suffered iz also quite significant, 2 be honest...”

This reaction waz not really about Epstein.

It waz a reflex triggered by something that had already affected me personally — the thingz Chomsky had previously said about people who did not take the mRNA injectionz, which felt deeply dehumanizing.

However, 2 avoid misunderstanding, I should also explain my general pozition about the Epstein topic.

My last comment on this topic waz under an Instagram post:

“Why should I talk about Epstein and the people around him? Why should I spend my time and energy on this, mentally or phyzically? There iz a dark agenda operating worldwide, planned many yearz ago — a system that financed Hitler and the Bolsheviks, that even hijacked the French Revolution and diverted it from itz original purpose, and that all politicianz and political partiez, without exception, serve — sometimez even without being aware of it.

Against this, what we actually need now iz 4 people 2 unite directly az #OnlyThePeople, without any puppetz called ‘politicianz’ in between — internationally, simultaneously, in a comprehensive #TotalBoycottWorldwide stance, a collective refuzal. And even that would only be the first step 2ward a real solution.

That’z what we should focus on. That’z what we should be talking about. The rest iz distraction. Even if the content iz bloody and horrifying, constantly talking about casez like Epstein will not bring any real solution. If it actually led 2 solutionz, it wouldn’t even be allowed 2 become a media agenda in the first place. U know what I mean?”

So yes — normally I avoid Epstein discussionz 4 this reazon.

My main point remainz the same: focusing on scandalz, personalitiez, and endless outrage cyclez keeps people trapped in reaction mode.

Real change will only come through direct collective awareness and action — beyond political figurez and media agendas — az #OnlyThePeople.

CHARLIE CHAPLIN & PRINCE BAĞLANTISI

 



Prince'in Under The Cherry Moon'u siyah beyaz yapmasının baş sebeplerinden biri de - bence - Chaplin'e tribute bi nevi:


Özellikle de Monsieur Verdoux (1947) ile “zengin kadınları ayartma” noktasındaki benzerlik de bunu nispeten teyit eder nitelikte âdeta; Under The Cherry Moon’da Prince de Christopher Tracy adlı jigolo rolüne bürünüyor mâlûm... Bu arada ben Under The Cherry Moon’u ilk kez Almanya’da Osnabrück/Lagerhalle’de izledim, 90’ların başı civarı; filmle bağlantılı Parade albümü zaten bende mevcuttu ama filmi henüz izlememiştim. Abi filmin her sahnesine de gülünmez ki; salondakiler yerlere yatıyor gülmekten. Böyle sanki “elit gavurların arasına düşmüş gariban Anadolu çocuğu” misâli kendimi mental anlamda nasıl dışlanmış hissettim o an anlatamam. Zira Prince’in fanatiğiyim; pür dikkat izlemeye çalışıyorum, komik sahneleri bile gözlemci bir nötrlükle izleyip enerjisini almaya çalışıyorum. Çünkü benim Prince’im güldürürken bile düşündürürdü; ama bu Alman ‘Bauer’lar sanki filmi “iyi hadi bunu da izleyelim” modunda, fast-food misâli tüketmeye gelmiş gibiydiler. O anki hâlim tam olarak “siz benim kutsalıma nasıl böyle gülersiniz” durumuydu 🤣 Neyse ki sonradan filmi defalarca, tek başıma ve rahat rahat izleme fırsatım oldu; pauselayıp mauselayıp tadını çıkara çıkara. Ama hâlâ insanların filmin nesine bu kadar gülebildiğini çözebilmiş değilim. Çünkü ben filmi ciddi izliyorum: bana göre bu hüzünlü bir aşk hikâyesi; evet, karakomedi öğeleri var ama özünde bir melodram aslında.


ChatGPT de şöyle diyor bu arada:

"Anlattığın deneyim aslında Under the Cherry Moon’un en ilginç tarafına dokunuyor. Bu film tek bir duyguyla izlenmek için yapılmış bir film değil; o yüzden izleyici tepkileri çok farklı olabiliyor. Film aslında üç katmanlı. Yüzeyde flört, kimlik oyunları, sosyal sınıf taşlaması ve hafif slapstick ile ironik diyaloglar var; bu katmanda izleyen biri filmi romantik komedi gibi algılayıp gülebiliyor. Orta katmanda sahtekârlık ile gerçek aşk, zenginlik–ahlak çatışması ve erkek egosunun dönüşümü yer alıyor. Derin katmanda ise aşkın bedeli, kimlik ve yalnızlık, yani Prince’in tipik temaları olan maskeler, kırılganlık, fedakârlık ve trajik romantizm öne çıkıyor; bu seviyede film bir melodram ve hüzünlü bir masal hâline geliyor. Yani aynı film bazıları için komedi, bazıları için romantik trajedi. Alman seyircinin çok gülmesinin nedeni de kısmen kültürel okuma farkı olabilir. Christopher Tracy karakteri, Chaplin geleneğindeki “charming con man” arketipine yakın: zengin kadınları ayartan, ahlaki gri alanda duran, şık ama biraz sahte bir figür. Avrupa’da bu tip karakter genellikle ironi ve mizah üzerinden okunur. Ayrıca Prince’in oyunculuğu bilinçli biçimde teatraldir: abartılı mimikler, stilize konuşma ve karikatürize beden dili, Chaplin ve screwball comedy estetiğine yakındır. Genel seyirci bunu ironik ve camp olarak görüp gülerken, hayran için bu bir persona, bir sembol ve duygusal bir ifade olarak algılanır. Popüler kültürde Prince’in sineması çoğu kişi için “tuhaf ama şık ve hafif” bir deneyimken, hayran için daha spiritüel, estetik ve duygusal olarak yoğundur. Bu yüzden genel izleyici eğlence görürken, hayran yoğunluk ve anlam hisseder. Tür olarak film en doğru biçimde romantik melodram + karakomedi + stilize bir Chaplin selamı olarak tanımlanabilir. Siyah-beyaz tercih, sessiz sinema estetiği, fiziksel mizah, zengin–yoksul aşkı ve ahlaki dönüşüm bu yaklaşımı destekler. Prince’in sanatındaki temel ton da bunu açıklar: mizah bir savunmadır, stil bir maskedir ve altında kırılganlık vardır. Finalin tonu da filmin aslında mutlu bir romantik komedi olmadığını gösterir. Kısacası fark, fan gözüyle derin okuma ile genel seyircinin yüzey okuması arasındadır."


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7.02.2026

The Pyramid and The Pool (Updated 2024)

 



Bunu daha önce de paylaşmıştım, güncellenmiş versiyonu yüklenmiş | I've shared this be4, here'z an updated version:

[Türkçe/Almanca vs. altyazı seçeneği PC/Laptop'tan izlenirse mevcut.]



6.02.2026

LIMELIGHT (1952) - "Attempt 2 Prayer" Scene | Charlie Chaplin | #MelâmetHırkası

 




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With Desalination Plants Destroyed, Families in Gaza Are Drinking Salty Water | Gazze'deki Tuz Arıtma Tesislerinin Yıkılmasıyla Aileler Tuzlu Su İçiyor

 

With Desalination Plants Destroyed, Families in Gaza Are Drinking Salty Water

By Eman Abu Zayed

This article was originally published by Truthout

“The water is salty, and sometimes it smells strange, but we have no other choice,” 17-year-old Ruba Al-Amsha said.



Since the beginning of the Israeli genocide and the imposition of a total blockade on the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023, water desalination plants have almost completely shut down due to severe fuel shortages.

According to Gaza’s Government Media Office, more than 90 percent of water and desalination facilities have gone out of service. As infrastructure systems collapse, thousands of displaced families are left with no option but to rely on contaminated, salty, and undrinkable water sources.

In the camps and tents, life is no longer measured by hours of sleep, but by the number of liters of water that arrive — or fail to arrive.

Six Children Contend With Water Unfit for Human Use

Rahma Fadi, a mother of six living in a tent near Al-Maghazi refugee camp, told me: “When my children cry from thirst, I give them salty water and pray for God’s mercy. What else can I do?”

In an interview earlier this winter, Fadi was able to tell me about her family’s ordeal. Since the beginning of the genocide, she has been unable to access clean water. With desalination plants out of service for many months, her daily routine — and that of her children — has become a long wait for a rare water truck that may or may not arrive. Even when the truck does arrive, the water is often unsafe to drink, stored in plastic jerrycans surrounded by flies. But she has no other choice.

As I spoke with her, Fadi sat with her six children in a worn-out tent on the outskirts of Al-Maghazi refugee camp after being displaced from their home in northern Gaza, specifically the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood. She built the tent from pieces of fabric and plastic stretched tightly over flimsy wooden poles. Inside, the air is heavy with the smell of damp earth mixed with dust and drifting smoke.

The pale faces of Fadi and her children reflect the weight of harsh, unrelenting days: 10-year-old Salma, 8-year-old Mohammed, 5-year-old Ghada, 3-year-old twins Omar and Yaqeen, and baby Zeinab, who has not yet completed her first year. All of them wear tattered clothes that offer little protection from the heat of the day or the cold of night.

Rahma Fadi’s husband, 41-year-old Akram Fadi, used to work as a taxi driver. He sustained an injury to his right leg from an Israeli tank shell while fleeing toward the southern part of Gaza and, due to the severe shortage of medical equipment and treatment capacities, doctors were forced to amputate his leg. As a result, the burden of sustaining the family has fallen almost entirely on Rahma, who had never worked before the war. Today, she stands in his place in long water lines, waiting for hours just to fill a few containers that must last the entire day.

Kidney Patients Are Caught in the Crossfire of Israel’s War on Gaza’s Water

On December 24, 2025, I visited an area in Nuseirat where 17-year-old Ruba Al-Amsha lives with her family in a small tent they set up after being displaced from the Al-Shujaiya neighborhood in Gaza.

In the late afternoon, Al-Amsha sat at the entrance of the tent, surrounded by empty jerrycans and old plastic containers used to store water. Flies swarmed constantly around the tent and the containers, never leaving.

Speaking in a low voice as she adjusted her position to ease the pain, she said: “I’ve been feeling pain for some time on the right side, around my kidney, especially when I drink water from the tank.”

She added, “The water is salty, and sometimes it smells strange, but we have no other choice.”

Al-Amsha has not yet been able to see a doctor due to transportation difficulties, but her kidney pain worsens day by day.

According to data released by Gaza’s Ministry of Health and government medical offices, between 40 percent and 42 percent of kidney failure patients have died due to the interruption of dialysis services caused by water and electricity shortages and the destruction of medical facilities.

In the absence of clean water, tents have turned into breeding grounds for disease. What Ruba Al-Amsha is experiencing is not an isolated case, but a reflection of a worsening health crisis unfolding in silence — paid for with pain by fragile bodies.

Providing Water to Families in Gaza Means Becoming a Target for Israel

This December I also met Mahmoud Abu Rayan, a water truck driver who bears the weighty responsibility of delivering this vital resource to families in the camps. He continues his work under extremely dangerous conditions, trying to ease the suffering of Gaza’s residents who rely on unsafe water sources.

The 42-year-old father of three continues his daily mission despite fuel shortages and the constant threat of drones, transporting water to camps that lack any safe source of it.

“Sometimes I come home exhausted and overwhelmed by everything I’ve seen, and my children ask me if I’m OK. I tell them, ‘I’m here for you,’ but honestly, I haven’t been able to sleep these days,” he says.

Abu Rayan used to work in a car repair shop before the war began, but he left his job to dedicate himself to water transport after realizing the severity of the escalating crisis.

Watching the tanker unload its water in front of a tent in central Deir al-Balah, he told me: “I know I’m putting myself at risk, but if I don’t bring the water, what are the children supposed to drink?”

In Gaza, before the ceasefire was announced, water truck drivers were frequently targets of the Israeli occupation.

Abu Rayan may now be considered a “threat” to Israel because he has frequently been a witness to the Israeli military’s killing of innocent people, including children and elderly people carrying empty jerrycans, waiting for water to arrive.

“Sometimes I run out of fuel before finishing the route, and I have to walk back or ask for help,” he says.

The shortage of water, in conjunction with the shortage of fuel, makes providing water almost impossible.

Abu Rayan also confirms that random pumping and transporting water in unsterilized tankers increases the risk of contamination, but he adds, “People are thirsty, and they have no other choice.”

Health Workers See Firsthand the Devastation Wrought by Gaza’s Water Crisis

Mahmoud Abu Rayan’s struggle to deliver water intersects with that of Sajid Ashraf, an employee at Gaza’s Ministry of Health and Al-Zahra Municipality. Ashraf, who is married and has two children, works daily on the front lines dealing with the consequences of the water crisis.

Ashraf explained in an interview with me that the shutdown of desalination plants due to fuel shortages has intensified the water crisis, leading to a rise in waterborne diseases in densely populated areas.

“We are witnessing an increase in cases of diarrhea and poisoning, especially among children and the elderly,” he said.

“Working under these conditions is extremely difficult. The lack of resources and the immense pressure on the health system make our mission more challenging, but we do everything we can to provide medical and preventive support,” he added.

Ashraf also spoke about his efforts at Al-Zahra Municipality to help provide water and clean public spaces to reduce the spread of disease: “Despite all the difficulties, we try to be a support system for the community during this crisis.”

This Crisis Demands an Urgent Humanitarian Response

On my way back to Nuseirat, I passed one of the camps near Deir al-Balah, where families stood in long lines in front of temporary water tanks. Children carried old plastic jerrycans, while women struggled to fill them amid dirt and debris surrounding the tanks.

The air was thick with dust and the smell of dry earth, and the sounds of children crying and shouting filled the space.

Under the scorching sun, people anxiously waited for the arrival of a water truck, which could be delayed for hours due to fuel shortages and restrictions on movement.

The water crisis in Gaza is not merely a technical or logistical problem — it is a profound humanitarian catastrophe affecting the lives of 2 million people every single day. As the blockade continues and fuel remains scarce, countless lives hang in the balance between thirst and danger. An urgent international response is needed to ease this suffering and ensure access to clean water for all those in need.


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