Letters To A Friend Who Was Murdered
In this 2-part series, Kiora shares her letters to a friend who was murdered, dedicated to Dr. Refaat Alareer, his family and Palestine following the Gaza genocide which has seen more than 75,000 Palestinians killed, nearly 2 million forcibly expelled and 100,000 wounded.
Dedicated to Dr Refaat Alareer, his Family, and Palestine.
A letter to a friend who was murdered, Part 1.
75 years, 61 days and counting. December ‘2023. (The death toll has massively increased since the writing of this piece.)
Dear Refaat,
Images of a JCB being used to tear a hole through a fence, was the first thing I saw plastered across world media.
Then I heard the question, "Do you condemn Hamas?"
Not long after, Israel started bombing Gaza, Palestine.
I was online as it was unfolding, as were so many others.
Initially I had Spent countless hours scouring through Israel's footage & findings of October 7th, looking for what could have possibly motivated such a heinous, disproportionate sanctioned response. And what I saw and found instead were many, many obvious & subtle inconsistencies, in Israel's narrative of events over all.
Unable to sleep, as grotesque, barbaric images of unimaginable cruelty and pain of innocent families, were flooding out from Gaza like a tsunami of horror. I started tweeting on X, making posts with the hashtag “GazaGenocide” to describe what my eyes were seeing unfold. I noticed others who were doing the same, probably also unable to sleep and feeling like I, completely helpless & repulsed. Unbeknownst to most #GazaGenocide was trending & spreading like wildfire across platforms, projecting the growing voices of protest
On becoming aware of this the Israeli government promptly made a direct public complaint to Elon Musk, the prominent frontman of the “X” platform, saying that it couldn't be said that "defence" was a "genocide," and anyone who did say such, was “anti-Semitic”.
The hashtag “GazaGenocide” was pulled by X 'under their community guidelines’. But by that stage, as I mentioned, it had already been adopted by so many that a mass appeal ensued, and for X's frontman Elon a huge campaign of pressure. The appeal to use the term was argued under the ICC & UN’s definition of genocide; from observation of the platform it seemed that the overweighing vast majority of the public and many history, legal & human rights scholars & professionals shared the belief that Israel’s actions at the time had already passed the threshold into genocide. The appeal was won, and all again were permitted on the platform X to use the term "Genocide," in reference to Israel's bombardment of Palestine.
Groups of voluntary individuals popped up across the planet, and started to rip apart Israel's narrative and propaganda machine. Which from the seams fell apart the moment the curtains were drawn. Israeli claims were being debunked by the hour as they desperately scrambled to hire more sway, operatives and trolls. Issuing blanket threats to anyone or thing that moved, with the branding of anti-Semitic or terrorist sympathizer "On a rally of hate, to deny Israel's right to self defence''. Whilst simultaneously getting their paid government ducks in a row, & publicly compliant.
X's frontman is summoned to the Hornet's nest in Tel Aviv;
He does not decline, despite the invitation coming under the shadow of nearly 5,000 murdered children and accusations of war crimes committed at will by his host. The obedient guest was paraded around propped like a sock puppet at the end of Bibi's hand, whilst continuing to barter and pose for photos. Whatever was requested was done in the full knowledge to the effects that it was destined to create for Israel's neighbours, of which none were highlighted on the world stage, such as the denial of starlink connectivity to Gaza.
Whilst Elon got set to jet home, he is asked by Palestinian NGO's to consider making the trip to Gaza also, but he declines, stating that "It is too dangerous to visit", nobody disagrees with this statement as mounting corpses in Gaza could attest to the catastrophic risk to life there, as a result of Israel's ongoing continuous indiscriminate bombardment.
However, after X frontman Elon did leave Israel two curious things happened that are probably non-related to each other, but still co-related to the visit. *Firstly, not too long after Elon left Israeli airspace, (as reported by various mainstream media outlets) Israel allegedly had a massive infrastructural hack, where they lost use of their mobile phone network, parts of the electric grid and breaches of data personal and other. Now secondly, and more importantly, because of the catastrophic risk to life it could more likely pose, was Israel's increased capabilities (post visit) and/of "alleged" *use of extensive advanced invasive satellite geolocation tools that can and allegedly most likely were being used alongside A.I. surveillance software programs in the precision targeting of journalists, medical staff, NGO's etc.. And their families, through phones and postings on social media accounts, alongside basic intel like places of work and schedules, all of which Israel is privy to, as they are with the majority of Palestine's fenced in citizen's, particularly the vocal Ones.
Bombardment of Palestine continues, the death toll rises exponentially to approximately 15,000, with many hundreds, possibly thousands dying and dead unreachable laying still under the rubble, whole family lines are eradicated. Israeli citizens protest on the streets of Israel demanding a cease fire and the negotiated return of Israeli citizens held hostage in Gaza. It is vocalized by the families of said hostages that they fear their government, Israel's continuous bombardment of Gaza as the highest risk posed to the lives of Israeli hostages in Gaza. Public demand for a cease fire becomes louder.
Leaked documents surfaced of statements from the American president Joe Biden, detailing how he was hesitant on having a cease fire, due to fears that images of the scale of devastation in Gaza would become apparent if journalists were let in or out of Gaza.
A cease fire in Gaza begins, while ongoing violence perpetrated by the IOF against Palestinian civilians in the west bank escalates. Immediately into the cease fire Israel proceeds to consistently breach the conditions. Still, many hostages are returned, and basic aid starts making its way into Gaza for the first time since the beginning of the bombardment. The public & media are taken aback by how generally well-kept the hostages are and their familiarity, ease and overall comfort with their Hamas captors on departure from them. The ceasefire ends and the merciless, indiscriminate bombardment continues.
The UN announced that 110 of their staff have been murdered, the highest number of losses they have incurred since their founding and most within an eight week period. 75 is the number of journalists presently that have been murdered most directly targeted. Hospitals, including children's hospitals, a refugee camp and Schools have all been directly targeted and bombed, incurring losses in the hundreds on each occasion, including hospital directors and medical staff. Ambulances have been targeted by missiles as they try to retrieve the injured. Refugees were targeted by snipers, drones and missiles whilst evacuating under orders from Israel and then Israel proceeded to carpet bomb areas they ordered civilians to evacuate to.
And yesterday, a friend of mine, an extraordinarily beautiful Person who gave his life and energy to others, was killed, murdered alongside his Brother, Sister & her four Children. All were taken by an American missile shot by Israel. Upon waking today 'Dec 7th 2023 to an empty message box, where the day before we had wished each other a good morning and our hopes for his survival in Gaza another day. The silence & panic & bargaining for hope against all odds was a lighter terror & pain than the realisation and confirmation of our worst fears.
Some say it’s significant that we can now publicly call what Israel is doing to Palestine a "genocide," that the narrative has turned, their propaganda has failed. But does it matter and has it actually changed anything? Whilst we have been caught up in this debate, a human rights talking shop and war of Information, using words instead of global isolation, legal dismantlement of apartheid and legitimate armed resistance, Israel has slaughtered & eradicated over 20,000 innocent civilian lives, in just the last few weeks alone and countless others since the beginning of their occupation of Palestine with a complete carte blanche.
In the not so distant future, as we hear the sound of war drums, drones & bombs drawing close again. The cold hard reality is, that all the words in the world and social media posts ‘ain't never gonna bring them back, or mend the broken bodies and trauma of the One's who may survive.
As Palestine grieves and our community's grieve. We are told by the political public forums and powers that be, "Not to grieve too loudly, or call for Peace too persistently". As we are forcibly reminded and schooled that our calls for peace "are a march of hate, on the road to anti-Semitism".
RIP Dr. Refaat of Gaza.
#FreePalestine.
*Alleged hack "grid black out" in Israel,
A co-op of international hackers later took credit for this act, claiming they gaining access to the Israeli defence force servers and other, in which they stated they sat nearly 9months collecting evidence on 'AI Lavender, automated no chain of command strikes, aided by facial recognition, geo fencing, Google data bases and others etc..
Which they also stated was submitted to the ICJ, and what could be released publicly was through media outlets, such as the intercept and Aljezerez.
*Refaat Alareer
It was believed that Refaat was being tracked through his phone, it was later alleged that the morning he was murdered he had received a call from IOF personnel who informed him that he was a 'live target' after which he went quickly to his sister's to grab a bag to isolate, it is believed the strike was intentionally made on his arrival to his families home with the, knowledge that the young family was present also.
A Chara, Kiora.
A letter to a friend who was murdered, Part 2.
January '2026.
Zionist tech control has now become a mainstream discussion, as we see daily State tyrannical technological abuses being perpetrated against civilians not only in Palestine but also in The United States Of America, which has resulted in deaths.
Dear Friend,
Despite cute titles like "IOT" (The Internet of things),
Where your fridge can be hooked up to the Internet, so it can regularly verbally remind you that you are a "loser, who can't afford to fill it".
Or perhaps, it steers your 'just out of tax' car off a cliff, (it's in the small print).
It's persistently hard to watch the general publics continued apathy towards freely and perhaps unwittingly giving up their civil rights, privacy, movement and autonomy in accepting any form of censorship, digital oppression or enslavement, dragging us all down the drain with them for "likes" & "selfies", akin to lemmings faithfully missing the nets under a Microsoft sweat shop factory window.
Especially in the advent of the Julien Assange & Snowden revelations, and their subsequent treatment since, or more recently "Covid Vaccination mandates & Passports" which became a digital form of medical apartheid & segregation, and in certain situations denied citizens the right to earn a living.
When the Maidan in Ukraine kicked off in Nov '2013. When many young activists and protesters were rounded up, (using social media data in a lot of cases to identify and track), when they were hunted down in some cases, and bused to the Donbas to be killed there on the front line, by precedence I was reminded that any entity or State who wished to oppress promptly weaponized information, information always becomes an integral, adjustable tool of war.
(As with any "terror legislation", the legislation itself ‘is the terror)
Patterns then started to become undeniably apparent across many fields 'mining, markets, tech(chip manufacturing, robotics, A.I.).
That drones were fast becoming the economical and tactical weapon of choice for warfare & terror.
This mass cheap development of drones drastically sped up the refining process to synchronize 'the physical/mechanical "Hardware" to the "Software" to create in this case 'autonomous weaponry’.
And just in time for "A.I." too. Phew!
A.I., being the perfect co-pilot to help navigate us on this dark dystopian horizon, through a perfect storm of no Law or Rights, (never mind rules of engagement) to the 'best case scenario' destination 'Christian Zionist occupation.
As the proverbial penny drops, and Godot becomes forlorn & homesick waiting at the boarding gate.
Softer forms of this synchronization is continually being tested, tweaked, and implemented, often unknowingly digital infrastructure & systems are being installed, such as digital Bio ID, Geo-fencing, facial recognition and many other rights & data infringements, over reaches and breaches.
Throughout Covid, Chinese software developers took the opportunity to refine their AI facial recognition software.
Watching a news piece produced on their achievement of this, viewers are greeted by Chinese engineers, who launch into their musings on 'counting and cataloguing small insects in relation to human beings’.
One of the team remarked with spontaneous glee about "the difficulty of trying to count small insects moving around on a pietri dish", and that "if somehow you could freeze, or stun them temporarily, it made a seemingly impossible task suddenly very achievable".
While another smoothly moved the narrative on to brag about their “all seeing surveillance system, Citizen naughty lists, and automated penalty ticket systems, who might just send a drone to your home, if you don't pay on time", or beg the all seeing surveillance system for redemption.
Well, now that we are past the testing ground phase, and the implementation of the technocracy take-over of the USA is trying to make the whole American Continent and Planet "great" again!
A technocratic take over that is inherently Zionist, given the fact that Palantir (who’s CEO Alex Karp publicly affirmed explicit, professional & personal backing to the Israeli military) is boundlessly utilizing American's private data in coordination with ICE, the Federally appointed militarized agents of terror on the ground in the USA who have illegally executed Civilians with impunity, by no less means than shooting them in the face whilst on the school or grocery run as in the cases of Renee Good and Alex Pretti amongst others.
Or just given the fact that the Zionists not only own the President of the United States of America, but the American military & tech complex, and by proxy the American tax payer. Which became glaringly evident through the Epstein files, arming of the Gaza Genocide, the bombardment of Iran and the continued incursions into Lebanon.
When Zionists themselves, proudly told the whole world that they had explosives in phones and personal devices (god knows what else!) all over the Globe, ready to go off at their command.
I wondered when everyone would collectively stop raising their “smart” leash homing phones, as bystanders to film the terror that will come for them next, and instead started to collectively raise their awareness, expectations, voices and in step their solidarity, non compliance and resistance to this terror in all its oppressive forms and facades.
A Chara, Kiora.