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From a letter to Dr Adnan al-Bursh. We will be posting letters of rage & grief, to those who can no longer receive them, throughout the day. Please join with your own.

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Dear Dr Adnan al-Bursh, Your hands have lived with me for months. After Israel tortured you to death, I searched for them in every photo or video they showed of you. I glimpsed one photo of you that your children and wife were looking at on their phone as they grieve. Your arms greet the camera and they are outstretched. Your hands offer the camera an even larger smile than your mouth. I find your hands amidst a tangle of doctors’ wrung-out bodies in a photo taken in the staff room at al-Shifa Hospital at some point in the early weeks of Israel’s onslaught following October 7. Most of the other hands are preoccupied: your colleagues are manipulating their phones, one is laughing and grasping the back of his neck, one is vaping, one is caught at a moment of his fingers’ gesticulations. But your hands are still. Each forms a soft ball: one rests on a mattress, the other props up your head. Exhaustion seems about to pull you into sleep.
April 30, 2025 at 7:59 AM