Artist: Shahd Rajab, Flyers for Falastin

The Palestinian civil defense found bits
of his hat, his red suit, and a few fragments
from his bag of presents, perhaps.
They continued removing rubble by hand.

The body of Santa was never found.
Some witnesses confirm they saw him
distributing presents in Ahli hospital
before the bombs destroyed it.

After the killing of Santa in Gaza,
Mrs. Claus applied to the U.S. government,
to investigate the murder of her husband
and the mysterious absence of his body.

Israel reassured the U.S. president
that they will investigate the crime,
the mistake, the incident, the tragedy.
Odd how their tongues keep slipping.

The IOF drops a new American bomb now
that evaporates bodies, a relief to Israelis,
who fear even dead Palestinians as evidence
even more than they fear Hamas.

One witness claims he saw Santa resurrected
and ascending into the sky.
Maybe he is showing God his stained bag of
the remaining presents, flesh, heads and bones.