Bloody Wednesday in Sanaa… When Time Itself Wept

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It was a scene that shook hearts — a moment words failed to describe — as the lens of a mobile phone captured the rescue of a living child from the Al-Dhamadi family after more than fifteen hours beneath the rubble of his destroyed home in the Al-Tahrir neighborhood of Sanaa, following Israeli airstrikes in what has come to be known as “Bloody Wednesday.”

The child, terrified and devastated, looked around with trembling eyes, searching for his parents — who did not emerge with him.

His only “crime” was seeking shelter within the walls of his modest home, comforted by the embrace of his family — an embrace that, in an instant, was reduced to debris.

Despite the joy of survival, over fifteen civilians — men, women, and children from the Al-Dhamadi family — remain trapped under the rubble.

Rescue teams and neighborhood residents are doing the impossible, but their tools are primitive, and the narrow streets prevent heavy machinery from entering.

Only trembling, dust-covered hands are racing against time — while time itself seems to be weeping at the world’s helplessness in the face of Israeli brutality.

The entire neighborhood has become a single beating heart, its voices rising in prayer and supplication, hoping that the remaining family members can cling to life until help arrives.

But behind this painful human scene lies a bitter sense of betrayal — for no international law has deterred the bombing, and no voice has risen against Israel, which continues to take lives with impunity, unchecked and unpunished — from Gaza to Lebanon, from Syria to Yemen, and even reaching Qatar, which itself has not been spared, despite its longstanding friendship and shared interests with Tel Aviv.

From beneath the rubble, it was as if a whisper could be heard: “Israel has risen to great heights… but the promise draws near.”

Today’s tragedy is not limited to Israel alone — it extends to Washington, which continues to provide unlimited military and political support to an occupying power that openly boasts of its crimes before the world — in flagrant defiance of international law, as documented by UN and human rights institutions that have recorded the violations, yet found no listening ears among the global powers.