That's a sweet girl in Gaza, with her guts hanging out, burned, bloodied, breathing her last breaths before she passes from time back to eternity

Though I have searched for it, I do not know her name. But I will not let her die this death without the world knowing about it.

Family, I have wrestled for two days about whether to share this video. My heart told me no. My soul told me no. I wanted to protect myself, and certainly protect you, from even seeing it. But then I saw platform after platform delete it from the very doctor in Gaza who filmed it, and from the journalists who reposted it. And that made the decision for me. I cannot allow this little girl to vanish into the night.

My guess is that she is about three years old, though she could be older. In Gaza, because of famine and malnourishment, children often look so small, so frail, that their age becomes impossible to guess. I searched for her name and could not find it. That breaks me. Because she deserves to be known. She deserves to be remembered. Inshallah (God willing) I will find her name and tell you.

In the video she is wearing pink pajamas, her body mutilated, burned, bloodied, her intestines spilling out — and yet she is still alive. Still breathing. Still stuck with us on this evil planet. That is soul-crushing. I have seen children who were no longer children, but pieces of them. A torso. An arm. A leg. And I could only hope that they died instantly, that they felt no pain. But this girl was alive on a metal bed, gasping and breathing through horror that should never be survivable.

The doctor who filmed her is Dr. Ali Tahrawi, 29 years old, an emergency physician at Al Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah. He has lived his entire life under siege in Gaza, under nearly two years of daily genocide, working seventeen-hour shifts, documenting what he can so that the world bears witness.

He wrote of this girl:

“We stood helpless, not knowing what to do. I felt this little girl’s final heartbeats with my hands, pulsing through torn flesh. If images of torn and broken children are not enough to stop this madness, then what is?”

Instagram deleted those words. Deleted his witness. Deleted this child. And that is why I am showing you. Because erasure is the second death. It is not enough that she is bombed and burned. They want her hidden. They want her story buried.

Dr. Ali has spent nearly two years writing directly from the hell of Gaza. He published his notes and testimonies in a booklet with friends abroad so that if social media erased him, at least one record would remain.

He has said openly:

“If we are left to burn in this hell alone, then humanity itself has already died. This world is no longer human. And the silence that allowed all of this will haunt you forever.”

Family, pause with me here. Let yourself feel the weight of that little girl breathing through mutilation. Let yourself feel the weight of a doctor writing his testimony at the edge of collapse, knowing even his witness will be censored.

And then ask yourself: if this is not enough to stop the genocide, then what will be?

I am telling you this because the people of Gaza are not only being killed, they are being systematically erased. Their names, their stories, their images, their voices. And every deletion, every ban, every algorithm that buries their testimony is complicity.

My eyes have seen tens of thousands of videos from Gaza. Each one is a scar. But this one was different. Because she lived long enough to make me confront how much cruelty a small body can endure. Because she breathed through what should have killed her instantly. Because she was still with us.

I will not let her be deleted. And neither should you. Read. Share. Speak. Refuse silence.

Silence is complicity. Silence is complicity. Silence is complicity.

Love and appreciate each of you.
Your friend and brother,
Shaun

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