#we are not numbers

[wearenotjustnumbers2]

Bisan's recent post. I think it's important for you to read it. Tonight 03.12.23, journalists in gaza share their last messages. There are no words to describe the horrors unfolding in gaza right now.

I no longer have any hope of survival like I had at the beginning of this genocide, and I am certain that I will die in the next few weeks or maybe days. I have been sick with severe viral infection for days and cannot move from the mattress!

I suffer from nightmares that are so closely resemble reality that I no longer differentiate between reality and dream.

I live in a world other than the one I claimed to be building! I am a community activist who lived on the fantasy that the world was free and just, and I sought to bring rights not only to my people, but to many men and women in third world countries!

I was shocked that I was not from the third world! Indeed, we are the most humane and moral! Yes, because the world approves, supports, and finances the genocide we are being subjected to, legislates it, and gives reasons for for 58 days! While we are a people who have been living on occupied land for 75 years and are still searching for our rights and communicating our voice to the world!

My message to the world: You are not innocent of what is happening to us, you as governments or peoples that support Israel’s annihilation of my people. We will not forgive you, we will not forgive you, humanity will not forgive you, we will not forget, even if we die, the history will never forget .

A Message to friends: Thank you and the supporters around the world. You have been compassionate and very strong. We ask you not to lose hope, even if the world seems completely unfair and your efforts have not yet resulted in a ceasefire.

[bibyebae]

names not numbers

The Palestinian Ministry of Health released a report on Thursday, including the names of more than seven thousand Palestinians who were martyred in the Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip.

Red color highlights 0-4 years old age group

Green color highlights age group 5-17

White color highlights the age group between 18 and 59 years old

Gray color highlights the age group over 60

These are not just names, but people killed in the midst of a brutal war. Remember their names.

(Designed by @georgedeebstudios on insta)

[athena5898]

(RNN)

We Are Not Numbers. "When we write about martyrs, we must remember that the occupation killed them. We must not leave the deed to the unknown."

Today marks the anniversary of the martyrdom of Dr. Refaat Al-Areer, one of the most prominent English professors in the Gaza Strip and the founder of We Are Not Numbers. (https://wearenotnumbers.org/) Refaat, a writer and activist, empowered Palestinians to write their own stories, to take back the narrative, and to be heard by the world. He was a leading expert in Palestinian history and the zionist occupation, amplifying his principled anti-zionist stance to the world.

His final tweet (https://twitter.com/itranslate123/status/1731538938181964279) was: "The Democratic Party and Biden are responsible for the Gaza genocide perpetrated by Israel."

"If I must die, you must live to tell my story."

Glory to our martyrs.

[a7a-102132]

The Israeli occupation is now using the internationally banned weapon white phosphorus in the criminal attack on Gaza. 3 million citizens in Gaza are now hugging their children and awaiting their terrifying fate, awaiting inevitable death due to international silence over this despicable Israeli crime.

[prehistoricmancunt]

““In heaven we are making another Gaza for ourselves. Gaza with doctors without blood or patients, teachers without crowded classes, journalists reporting on the beauty of the heaven. In heaven, there is a Gaza being created, without a siege.” Heba AbuNada, killed by Israel. - @WeAreNotNumbers”

[rhodoforwinter]

Help my family. War is devastating. There is nothing left to live. No schools, no universities, no home, and no dreams. All dreams have been shattered. I hope for help before it is too

I'm so sorry – I don't have the funds to donate right now. For anyone able to, here is the campaign. Please share this even if you're unable to donate, it takes a few seconds to reblog!

Help this family in any way you can.

🇵🇸❤️🍉

[garadinervi]

We Are Not Numbers. The Voices of Gaza's Youth, Edited by Ahmed Alnaouq and Pam Bailey, Hutchinson Heinemann, London, 2025

↗ We Are Not Numbers

[allaboutpalestine1948]

The night in Gaza

 There is no service at all which means if you’re dying you can’t call an ambulance.. some ambulance cars stopped working because of the fuel.. hospitals may stop working any second because of the fuel as well.. literally if they all got killed in Gaza.. no one will know..

Shame on everyone who can do anything to stop this genocide and is still watching.. shame on you!!

 no service to stay in touch with them, no internet to post, no electricity to charge their electronics, no fuel to move with the car.. literally nothing!!

[jasontoddsthickthigh]

[fiercynn]

we are not numbers, a youth-led nonprofit and platform in gaza for palestinian youth to tell their stories, has lost THREE of their writers or former writers to israel's genocide just in the past two weeks: yousef maher dawas, mahmoud alnaouq, and huda al-sosi.

please read tributes from other WANN writers about each of them.

yousef wrote a piece called "who will pay for the 20 years we lost?" that was published by WANN on january 14, 2023.

mahmoud was the brother of WANN co-founder ahmed alnaouq. he conducted interviews that informed the piece "palestine and venezuela in 'one trench'", written by pam bailey and published on april 2, 2019.

huda was a member of the newest WANN cohort and had not yet published anything on the WANN webiste, but she published the following two pieces in the electronic intifada: "braving israel's bombs to hug my parents" in may 2022, and "gaza's queen of quilling" in august 2022.

please read these and keep their loved ones in your thoughts. they should be alive to share their stories themselves.

[blorbocedes]

this is Ahmad Abu Daqqa, a 15 year old Palestinian refugee kid from Gaza who just 6 months ago was giving a speech at the UN as a UNRWA student. He's now disabled, with shrapnel in his knee for over 2 months and can't get leave to get treatment, doesn't want to leave while stranding his family here.

he used to dream of being president but now says his dreams are being able to walk again and play football with the other kids. wanted to share it because of the language atrophy, the cruelty of the war that gets less mentioned -- the kids who survive are injured and often disabled permanently.

this was his speech at the UN on June, that he mentioned in the video

His Instagram where I took the video from is _crgr, and he asked to share the video to a wider audience.

[wearenotjustnumbers2]

This is Rafah, The "safe" zone, where 1.5 million Palestinian fled to. You have to understand, what bombing Rafah means.

Please don't look away, while everybody is busy watching the super bowl, Israel commits one of its most deadly and openly genocidal attacks on Rafah. Please don't look away.

[bibyebae]

" Men in Gaza do cry.

When they lose their homes that they spend their

whole lives building, they cry

When they see their dreams and hopes getting destroyed, they cry.

When they realise how scary and uncertain their future is, they cry.

And because they are human beings, full of feelings and emotions, they cry."

This is an excerpt from a 35-year-old Palestinian's account of life in Gaza under siege.

Ziad has been writing for the Guardian about the realities of the Israeli bombardment, as he, his sister and their pets, flee their home in Gaza City in the hope of survival.

You can read his diary entries in full via the link:

[freedomforpalestine]

I am tired of the media in Germany. I am tired of the media in the West.

This is genocide and I'm raising my voice against it.

God sees and knows everything.

[a7a-102132]

Memories from under the rubble of destroyed homes in Gaza. 28.10.23