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It is that time of year when we Palestinians seem relevant again.
My inbox is flooded with interview requests about 7 October. Media outlets are interested in hearing my thoughts on the anniversary, and journalists want to know whether I condemn Hamas or not.
But what difference does it make?
Growing up, I dreamed of the day I would wear the press vest and helmet and tell the stories of Gaza to the world through my own eyes. I wanted to tell stories about how Palestinians love life, how they try to create something out of nothing, and how they try to bounce back after Israeli aggression and continue. I wanted to tell the stories of the Gaza I know, instead of the Gaza the media focuses on only when there is Israeli aggression or genocide.
But shortly after I graduated, it was 7 October.
In no time, wearing press gear became risky. Instead of protecting journalists and media workers, it made them a target.
Since the genocide began, over 74,000 Palestinians have been killed, including over 21,000 children, and this only accounts for the official numbers. Nearly 2 million people have been displaced, and 80% of the infrastructure in the Gaza Strip has been destroyed. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, 247 journalists have been killed, 174 injured, and 118 imprisoned.
For the first 45 days of the genocide, I was on the ground reporting closely with two colleagues, Hatem Rawagh and Mohammed Abu Safia. They were both fathers, carrying the responsibility of staying strong and, most importantly, alive for their children. They held on to the hope of watching them grow up, giving them a future, and seeing them live in a better world than the one they were reporting on.
I still remember how Nour, Mohammed’s youngest daughter, would call him while we were out in the field reporting. She would tell him “bahebak” (I love you) in her soft voice, still learning how to pronounce the word. I could see how those words affected him each time he heard them.
His family has always been his reason for living, but Mohammed’s desire to tell the world the truth in hopes that this carnage could end forced him to stay away from them. Every day, he wondered whether it was safe to visit his family, or whether going would put them at more risk of being targeted.
His biggest fear was that Israel would kill them because of his profession, and that he’d remain alive to bear that agony.
He thought a lot about what Wael Dahdouh endured. After learning that his family had been killed by an Israeli airstrike, the Al Jazeera journalist had to report on the tragedy.
This was not the only loss we shared.
Belal Jadallah, the founder of Press House Palestine, who was a father figure to all journalists in Gaza, was also targeted and killed by Israel. He trained so many of us, including how to stay safe and how to be careful with our language and terminology because of the weight they carried for the wider world.
I was with Hatem when he told us the news: “Belal got targeted with an Israeli tank shell, or an airstrike hit his car.”
If the person who taught us how to protect ourselves could not be protected, then the vest and helmet were certainly never going to be enough.
It always felt like the only certainty in Gaza was uncertainty.
We had watched Israel kill our colleagues one after the other. Many others had also been injured or imprisoned. Each time, we’d wonder who would be next as it became harder to escape.
We were surviving one day at a time, never knowing when our turn might come.
Hatem and Mohammed are still in Gaza, still reporting. They explain: “It’s our duty.”
Part of them still wants to believe that if the world learned more about what is happening in Gaza, the genocide would stop. But now, three years into it, we know it’s not enough. Knowledge without accountability and justice means nothing.
As journalists, our responsibility is to bear witness and tell the truth, and in Gaza, we risk our lives to do it. But the responsibility cannot rest on our shoulders alone. The rest of the world must also be willing to carry that truth forward, to turn what it knows into action.
I used to dream of telling the world how Palestinians love life, how they build something out of barely anything and keep going. Instead, I have spent the last three years telling the world how they are being killed.
Whenever I see the number of journalists killed on the news, I think of the families they left behind, and of the people who are still waiting for a call that will never come. Whenever I watch the news from far away, I imagine the journalists behind the footage, standing in the same streets in the same vests, wondering if today is their turn.
Now, three years into a genocide, there is less and less coverage coming out of Gaza, and it is because journalism itself has become a target.
Despite our colleagues around the world watching so many being killed in Gaza, which sets a dangerous precedent for the future of their own work, too many are contributing to the injustice through the so-called measured language they choose, the realities they obscure, and the violence they help justify and normalise.
So every year around this time, when those press requests come flooding in, I think about the journalists who are still in Gaza, still on the ground reporting, and who will never get an email asking for their expert opinion, their experiences of tragedy and destruction.
Hatem and Mohammed say it is their duty, but it should not be theirs alone.
Plestia Alaqad is an award-winning journalist and author who has emerged as a powerful voice in digital media. She gained international recognition for her heartfelt, on-the-ground reporting during the genocide on Gaza, where her raw, personal storytelling brought global attention to the human impact of the violence. She recently published her book The Eyes of Gaza, that became an instant New York Times, Indie, San Francisco, and Boston Global Bestseller.
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Biblical Introduction in Honor and Devotion to the Feast of the Most Holy Trinity, May 31, 2026 whe this article was originally published in Italian version
“Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father in me; or else believe it for the sake of the works themselves. Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I am going to the Father. Whatever you ask in my name, I will do, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it. If you love me, you will keep my commandments. I will pray the Father, and he will give you another Counselor to be with you forever.”
“The Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you. I will not leave you orphans; I will come back to you. In a little while, the world will see me no longer, but you will see me, because I live and you will live. On that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you. Whoever has my commandments and keeps them loves me. Whoever loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.”
by Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio
«The Patriarchs and Heads of the Churches in the Holy Land affirm before the faithful and the world that the flock of Christ in this land is entrusted to the Apostolic Churches, which have carried out their sacred ministry for centuries with unwavering devotion. Recent activities undertaken by local individuals promoting harmful ideologies, such as Christian Zionism, mislead public opinion, sow confusion, and undermine the unity of our flock».
In light of the religious terrorism practiced daily by the IDF under the leadership of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Lebanon, where Christians represent nearly 40% of the population, unlike in Palestine, where they are a minority that even before the vile and inhumane genocide was less than 2%, the words written by the Patriarch of the Orthodox Church of Jerusalem, Theophilos III, appear truly prophetic.
“Such initiatives (Christian Zionism – ed.) have found favor with certain political actors in Israel and elsewhere, who seek to advance a political agenda that could harm the Christian presence in the Holy Land and throughout the Middle East.”
To confirm the validity of these statements, simply read the exclusive investigation by Gospa News titled “RELIGIOUS TERRORISM IN THE HOLY LAND. All the Crimes of Netanyahu’s IDF Against Christians (Dossier & 10 Videos)”.
For those who are unaware of the persecution of believers in Jesus Christ carried out by the Zionist Netanyahu, thanks to the international military support of US President Donald Trump, a Protestant Presbyterian but increasingly close to the most extremist pastors of the American Evangelical Church, please read the article before proceeding.
Theophilus III’s statement, although published on January 16, 2026, received very little attention in the West for the simple reason that, despite being signed and attributed generically to the “Patriarchs and Heads of the Churches of Jerusalem,” it was published only on the Cyrillic and English website of the Orthodox Patriarchate of the disputed holy city, but, as far as we can tell after careful research, not on that of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem of the Catholic Church, whose heroic regent is Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa.
This lack of consensus prevented us from including it in our investigation entitled “FRASONRY & ZIONISM – 5. Netanyahu launches Christian Zionism: the “False Religion” prophesied by Emmerich and born from the Synagogue of Satan.”
But I was extremely pleased to find it in retrospect because it represents a highly authoritative confirmation of the alarm, reeking of heresy, highlighted by Gospa News.
It may seem paradoxical, but I was able to uncover it only through research on the website of the Qatari Islamic TV station Al Jazeera, one of our important international sources on the wars between Israel and the US in the Middle East.
Before analyzing the reason why the Catholic Church’s Patriarchate of Jerusalem has not given it prominence, we feel it is our duty to clear the field of any responsibility on the part of Cardinal Pizzaballa. He is one of the very few Christian voices in the world, among all denominations, with the courage and candor to speak the truth “like a voice crying in the wilderness,” mindful that the Messiah, Jesus Christ, dead and risen, is not only “the WAY AND THE LIFE, BUT ALSO THE TRUTH” (Jn 14:6).
Precisely for this reason, he suffered the terrible humiliation of Palm Sunday when the Israeli police prevented him from entering the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem to attend the Solemn Mass, which was forbidden to the faithful for public order reasons and reserved only for the shrine’s clergy.
We analyzed his story in our investigation into the 155 cases of Christian persecution recorded in 2025 by the Jerusalem-based interfaith organization Rossing Center for Education and Dialogue.
This is why the words of Orthodox Patriarch Theophilus III about “Christian Zionism” as a threat to Christianity seem prophetic to us: because they were confirmed in a subsequent report on Israeli human rights violations specifically directed against followers of Christ.
Before addressing the embarrassing situation of the Apostolic Catholic Church regarding this “heresy” born in the context of the ethnic and para-religious supremacism of Zionism, which can easily be identified with the “false religion” of various biblical prophecies, particularly that of the Christian nun and seer Anna Katharina Emmerick, reported in the previous investigation, let us examine the appropriate and solid theological rationale for Theophilus III’s statements.
“Sacred Scripture teaches us that ‘we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another'” (Romans 12:5). Claiming authority outside the communion of the Church harms the unity of the faithful and burdens the pastoral mission entrusted to the historic Churches in the very land where our Lord lived, taught, suffered, and rose from the dead,” the statement reads.
“The Patriarchs and Heads of the Churches also note with concern that these individuals have been officially welcomed, both locally and internationally. Such actions constitute interference in the internal life of the Churches and a disrespect for the pastoral responsibility entrusted to the Patriarchs and Heads of the Churches of Jerusalem.”
The statement from the Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem states, implicitly referring to proponents of “Christian Zionism,” such as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who promoted it in a public meeting with evangelical pastors in Florida, the U.S. state where President Trump lives.
“The Patriarchs and Heads of the Churches of Jerusalem reaffirm that they are the only ones to represent the Churches and their flock in matters relating to Christian religious, communal, and pastoral life in the Holy Land. May the Lord, Shepherd and Guardian of souls, grant wisdom to protect His people and safeguard His testimony in this sacred land,” concludes Theophilus III.
Why has the Catholic Church failed to heed this alarm raised by the Orthodox Church, at least for appropriate reflection and ecumenical debate?
For the simple reason that, as we explained in our previous historical revisionism investigation, “FREEMASONRY & ZIONISM – 6. The License to Kill of the SYNAGOGUE OF SATAN”, stems from the Conspiracy on the Heretical Aberrations of the Catholic text “Nostra Aetate,” it was the Second Vatican Council itself, with an ambiguous and ominous document, that effectively legitimized all religious worship, paving the way for the Great Architect of the Universe, idolized by Freemasonry according to a deistic conception of the Natural Divinity, opposed to the theistic vision, both Christian and Muslim, of the revealed God.
In light of the anti-Christian tendencies of contemporary society, which have found concrete expression in preventive wars unleashed in the form of genocide by Zionist leaders like Netanyahu and Trump against three monotheistic nations: Palestine, Lebanon, and Iran, it seems truly inevitable to identify the Pagan Deity of contemporary false religions in the fallen angel Satan.
Yet despite this, the Vatican itself, as we have highlighted in previous investigations, is teeming with cardinals we can easily and hastily label “Catholic Freemasons,” given that they are no longer ashamed even to publicly demonstrate their veneration for the Lodges of the “Hooded Ancient Masons,” excommunicated by Leo XII!
Among the pathogenic germs of this diabolical and perverse para-theological syncretism, the new WORLD VIRUS has found fertile ground, capable of infecting so many souls with arcane and fallacious metaphysical seductions that it now appears to be a SPIRITUAL PANDEMIC.
FREEMASONRY & VATICAN – 2. Cardinals, Bishops kneeling before Satan at the Masonic Summit in Italy
It facilitated a highly dangerous alliance between Catholics and the Zionist Political Movement, which, to legitimize the creation of the State of Israel, barricaded itself behind extremist interpretations of the Talmud, the condemnation of anti-Semitism, and constructed its own religious deviance, bitterly contested even by Orthodox Jews who are most observant of the Torah and the Tanakh.
Let us briefly recall that the book of the Torah is equivalent to the Judeo-Christian Pentateuch, the Tanakh to the Old Testament, and the Talmud is the transcription of oral laws often altered by the ancient Israelites according to the customs of their time.
From the good intention of weaving an interreligious ecumenical brotherhood, as we have detailed in previous investigations, a sort of “license to kill” has arisen, based on the “good faith” of the contemporary heirs of the Synagogue of Satan, aptly described by St. John the Apostle and Evangelist in the Book of Revelation.
Thus, in order not to commit an act of lèse-majesté against Zionist Prime Minister Netanyahu, who has been issued an arrest warrant for war crimes by the International Criminal Court in The Hague and accused of genocide by Catholic bishops and many nations around the world (but not by the Vatican), and now also of war rape by the UN (Israel has been blacklisted), even American Pope Robert Prevost has been forced to take a resounding “moral slap” from the Israeli regime without uttering a word…
He was forced, precisely by the aberrant theological foundations of the conciliar text Nostra Aetate, to believe the solemn lie that the terrorist attacks perpetrated by Israeli Zionists against Christians in the Holy Land were “occasional incidents”…
And therefore, according to Tel Aviv’s false narrative, they are not part of that social process aimed at eliminating Orthodox and Catholics in favor of Anglicans, who, being among the founding fathers of the Church, are among the founding fathers of the Church.
Freemasonry, have supported and allowed the Zionist Political Movement to gain control of the global financial system, especially in the field of military armaments, as we have seen in the investigation “WEAPONS LOBBY – 20.”
Today, this alarm of mine may seem like that of “one who cries in the wilderness,” and it would even risk appearing “anti-Semitic” if I had not repeatedly clarified that Zionism is a socio-political deviation from the authentic Israelite religion and that I feel so devoted to Judeo-Christian culture that I have no problem affirming my orthodoxy toward the biblical, Jewish, and Semitic tradition of the Covenant with God, confirmed by my circumcision.
However, it was confirmed by the warning message launched by the Patriarchate of the Orthodox Church of Jerusalem, but above all, it is in perfect harmony with some apocalyptic prophecies of Medjugorje, such as the one from January 1, 2001, a few months before the September 11, 2001, attack on New York, which occurred amidst the vile international plots of the CIA (USA) and the MOSSAD (Israel).
“Dear children, this evening, in a special way, I wanted you here. In a special way, now that Satan is freed from his chains. I invite you to consecrate yourselves to my Heart and to the Heart of my Son.”
Why would the Queen of Peace, who has been appearing at the shrine in Bosnia-Herzegovina since June 24, 1981, as recently partially recognized by the Vatican, have warned us if it were just a massacre like so many in ancient, medieval, and contemporary history?
Precisely because it is part of a plan of diabolical global conspiracies aimed at altering human and especially Christian spirituality, which I described well from a historical investigative perspective in a previous investigation of ours into a former director of the Central Intelligence Agency who played curiously murky and occult roles in the Twin Towers attack, as well as in the war in Ukraine and the laboratory-generated SARS-CoV-2 pandemic.
But, above all, from a metaphysical, soteriological, and eschatological perspective, this New World Order conspiracy was well-foretold by at least three fundamental Christian and Marian prophecies:
For now, we invite you to read the article published on Christian Renaissance (the website of the Gospa Edition network I founded, test in Italian available in English with machine translation) on the life of this itinerant nun who traveled between convents in France, England, and Italy, precisely because she was inconvenient for her dire predictions about the evil drift of many members of the Catholic clergy…
Sister Maria della Croce, as she was called after her vows of co-construction, when she was near death while being hosted in the French parish of Diou (in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region), expressed a final wish that takes on the significance of a withering warning:
“Feeling the end of that long and tormented life approaching, Mélanie said she did not want to “die among the Freemasons,” so she wrote to a friend, Rosa Giannuzzo, to contact her former confessor, Father Alfonso Fusco, so that he could find her a place where she would not be known, so that she could live out her last days in hiding.”
He then passed away in Puglia, in Altamura, taking with him the secrets of the Antichrists that the Roman Catholic Apostolic Church was reluctant to hear and spread… Just as today, in every Easter rite of renewal of baptismal vows, in almost every parish it is preferred to recite only the CREED, but the tradition of adding the RENOUNCEMENT OF SATAN has almost died out.
Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio – founder and director of Gospa News
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