#yousef mahar dawas

[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.