British-Iraqi rapper Lowkey, one of the most vocal supporters of Palestine, has used his online platforms to highlight the shocking scale of human suffering in Gaza at the hands of Israel’s Western-backed military onslaught.
Here’s a fan (@omar.sala78 on Instagram) in Deir Al-Balah, Central Gaza, showing children enjoying Lowkey’s song (‘Palestine Will Never Die’) as it plays on a large projected screen. The children sit in rows like they are in a dark movie theatre, a respite from the destruction around them.
Lowkey’s song refers to suffering Palestinian children, striking a particularly painful chord given a recent report by the UN Human Rights Office stated nearly 70 per cent of Gaza’s casualties are women and children. Meanwhile, in July, the British medical journal The Lancet reported Gaza’s death toll could be over 186,000 and climbing, given Israel has not relented in the latest escalation of the 76-year-old occupation.
However, as Lowkey (@Lowkey0nline on X) powerfully reminds the world, Palestine will never die.
Video credit: @omar.sala78 on IG
Sources:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn5wel11pgdo
https://www.thelancet.com/action/showPdf?pii=S0140-6736%2824%2901169-3
https://www.trtworld.com/middle-east/death-toll-in-gaza-could-exceed-186000-the-lancet-18181205