Forced displacement of Gaza Strip residents, CCA 4.0
By Alan Price
Military dog = MD Stray Dog = SD
MD: Hey, you, what are you doing?
SD: I’m looking for food.
MD: Clear off…there’s no food here!
SD: I was told there was.
MD: That’s a lie.
SD: What’s in that truck by the fence? Isn’t that full of food?
MD: Yes. But not dog food.
SD: So who’s it for?
MD: Humans, stupid!
SD: I know all about humans. They taste nice.
MD: What do you mean taste nice?
SD: I was hungry. There were so many people lying dead in
the rubble I was forced to eat a few.
MD: Ugh! How could you?
SD: We live in desperate times. Besides humans taste better than
cats.
MD: That’s barbaric. You should only eat what humans
feed you.
SD: They’ve nothing to give us now…except themselves. But I
need to get out of Gaza. It’s all dust, disease, bombs
and searching for a corpse is becoming more dangerous
A dog can’t survive in Gaza. Let me cross the border.
MD: If you poke your nose in that direction and bother a
settlement then I’ll turn a human on you.
SD: I’ll take my chances. You military dogs are always throwing
your weight around. But inside I think you hate what you’re
doing, killing people in the strip. I went and fed off a child
that one of your mates attacked in the street.
MD: That wasn’t one of us. Must have been a mad stray.
SD: No. Don’t blame my lot. And you of all dogs, a malinois
from Belgium, that at one time used to herd sheep. Hah!
(The stray turns contemptuously away. He looks towards the border crossing)
MD: If I bark really loud my trainer will shoot.
SD: And what will that prove?
MD: That there are dogs and dogs in this world.
(The stray dog sees that part of the fence is still broken. It runs towards it. The mad dog doesn’t go after the stray dog as it doesn’t want to be mistakenly shot. So it barks furiously. A soldier fires and the stray falls down dead. The soldier approaches his dog chastises it, and himself, for letting it off its lease to exercise in the field. On hearing a noise they turn round to see a big canine gang, running towards them.)
