A dream crushed — the tragic story of young Palestinian female boxer, Malak Mesleh

Twenty-year-old Malak Mesleh had dreams of representing her people, the Palestinian people, on the world stage as a female amateur boxer. Her goal in life was to make her people proud. But her dream of doing so was cruelly and brutally crushed under an Israeli missile, which struck the beachside cafe she and others were in at the time in Gaza on June 30, this year.

Malak was by all accounts not someone who would approve of being singled out for special mention amid the countless Palestinian victims of Israel’s ongoing genocidal slaughter of her people. But her death, the manner of it, stands a a symbol of the human potential that has and continues to be extinguished in the name of ethno-supremacy when it enters its fascist stage.

There is video footage of Malak training with her female compatriots on the beach in Gaza with a bomb-scape of ruined buildings in the background. Said footage stands as a towering testament to the power of the human spirit, and also a withering j’accuse of a world that has sat idly by as the suffering and slaughter of an indigenous people has taken place and been live-streamed.