cannot sleep. using twitter to stay informed. apparently egyptians in arish which is 80 kilometers (50 mi) away from gaza are reporting that their houses are shaking from the bombing. israel has intensified bombing, while cutting off all means of communication. absolutely no news from gaza. there is no fuel or electricity either. it’s a complete blackout. israel has also initiated a ground invasion. i use this word carefully and deliberately, but what we are witnessing right now, with the gleeful support and encouragement of the west, is nothing less than evil. i don’t mean evil in a religious sense. i mean complete human depravity. i mean a well-planned genocide that will finish the job of settler colonialism. i mean shameless racism and islamophobia and a perverted supremacy that’s ugly to behold. i mean israeli influencers mocking palestinians by daubing their faces with fake blood, painting their teeth black and showing off their water bottles (there has been a blockade on food and water in gaza). these videos have gone viral. i mean that in the west bank, israeli settlers and soldiers tortured and humiliated three palestinians men for 6 hours, stripping them naked, taking their pictures, beating them, urinating on them, burning them with cigarettes. this is the thingification aime cesaire wrote about. this is the dehumanization that comes with colonialism. it did not start on october 7th.